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A history of the Greenwich Blue Coat Schools

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HOME

Brief introduction to the site. The Time Line

HISTORY AT A GLANCE

Simple chart showing the development of the school from the Blue Coat Girls’ School and St John’s National Schools

CONTACT

Details of the site webmaster and useful contact links

GREENWICH BLUE COAT GIRLS’ SCHOOL 1700

The foundation of the school in 1700 and its early history. Mrs Margaret Flamsteed

1730-1748

Changes in the school and its reorganisation in 1748

1753-1856

New School House and financial concerns in the 1860s

1871-1908

The badly behaved school mistress. Sir George Biddell Airy. Interesting material from the archives

1913 PAGE 1

Information from the Annual School Report in 1913

1913 PAGE 2

Report of the girls’ holiday on the houseboat ‘Iona’. List of girls in the school in 1913

1913 PAGE 3

The objects, method of admission, school routine and visiting days. The school matron, Miss Sneyd

1926-1943

Change in organisation. Miss Agnes Ward. Rose Ellen Boniface

1947-1951

Miss G. W. Baggs. Further organisational change and development

1952-1959

First public examination entry. Sir Harold Spencer-Jones. Amalgamation with Blackheath & Kidbrook National Schools

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From the early School Archives

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St John’s National Church of England Schools

Blackheath & Kidbrook National Church of England Schools

Blackheath Bluecoat School 1959-1997

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Blackheath Bluecoat School 1998-2014