School for the Indigent Blind

The blind school, Southwark. Coloured engraving by R. Acon, 1829.

A School for the Indigent Blind was established in London in 1799. This was emulating a similar establishment in Paris and other schools of this sort were also founded in Bristol, Edinburgh and Liverpool.^[1]

The London school started in the former premises of the Dog and Duck. When this was demolished to make way for Bethlem Hospital, the school was moved to another site on St George's Fields by the obelisk which now stands at St George's Circus.^[2]

References

↑ School for the Indigent Blind, English Heritage
↑ "School for the Indigent Blind", The Dictionary of Victorian London

Schools and colleges in Southwark

Primary schools	Ark Globe Academy

Secondary schools	Ark All Saints Academy Ark Globe Academy Bacon's College The Charter School City of London Academy Harris Academy at Peckham Harris Academy Bermondsey Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich Kingsdale Foundation School Notre Dame High School Sacred Heart Catholic School St Michael's Catholic College St Saviour's and St Olave's School St Thomas the Apostle College Walworth Academy

Special schools	Spa School

Independent schools	Alleyn's School Dulwich College Dulwich College Preparatory School James Allen's Girls' School

Further education colleges	Lewisham Southwark College

Defunct schools	Camberwell Collegiate School Royal Naval School St Saviour's Grammar School School for the Indigent Blind

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