In order to fend off the usual Sunday afternoon lethragy that seems to weld the sprogs to the sofa, we have just spent a couple of very interesting hours and the Ragged School Museum.
This museum was opened in 1990 in three canalside warehouses in Copperfield Road, East London. The buildings were previously used by Dr Barnardo to house the largest ragged school in London. The displays and exhibitions concern the unique history of the East End of London, and in particular of the Copperfield Road Ragged School, which provided education for the poorest of the area's children.
In a re-created classroom of the period, visitors can now experience how Victorian children were taught - and punished. Displays on local history, industry and life in the East End are supplemented a varied programme of temporary exhibitions. Today, as part of the London-wide Black History month, the kids took part in an art workshop where they made doorhangers decorated with their names in Egyptian pictoral hieroglyphics. If you have a burning desire to see your name in hieroglyphics, you can click over to here and translate your name online.
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