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Description: | This photograph shows those helped by the "Cripples' Parlour" in Mile End, and their carers. This "Cripples' Parlour" was associated with the Ragged Schools Union (the RSU, whose initials are stitched into one of the banners). The Ragged Schools, at their height in the mid-Victorian period, were charitable schools set up to educate the children of the poor, and to inculcate Christian values. Much of their work was taken over by publically-funded School Boards following the Elementary Education Act of 1870; however, some still remained. The movement was associated with the Victorian politician and philanthropist, the 7th Earl of Shaftsbury (1801-1885). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Public services | Temporal: | 1905 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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