The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, vol. 4
Allen, Thomas
1827
The School for the Indigent Blind.
This excellent institution, adapted from the plan of at Liverpool, was founded in , and was opened on a small scale in the premises belonging to the Dog and Duck, a place of entertainment in the latter part of the last century, which was suppressed by the magistracy. It was soon found necessary to obtain larger premises, and the city of London being willing to grant a lease of about | |
483 | acres of their land, the offer was accepted, and the present edifice erected in a short space of time. The front is neatly stuccoed, and the interior well fitted up. |
In this interesting institution, the most humane attention is paid to a number of persons from the age of , and upwards, under the unhappy circumstances of blindness and poverty. They manufacture baskets, clothes' lines, sash cords, and various other articles, which are sold at the school, where strangers are permitted (gratis) to view the progress of the pupils, and to examine the nature of the institution. The profit of the articles here manufactured for sale, in aid of the funds of the establishment, is said to amount annually to from to There are about inmates of both sexes. | |
On the south side of the London-road is the extensive premises of | |
