Aims

 

Victorian Schools in London is intended to be a comprehensive and authoritative source of online information about all the elementary schools built by the School Board for London (SBL) between 1870 and 1904 and by the London County Council (LCC) between 1904 and 1914.  About 630 such schools were built.

 

Outcomes for schools

 

The intention of this website is to provide statistics on differing outcomes for school buildings in the news section.

Many schools which survive are still in use as primary schools. Some are in a different but still educational use. Others have found new uses as offices, workshops, arts centres, residential units, furniture storage centres and mosques.

A number of schools remain but are disused and facing dereliction.

The schools which no longer exist fall into three categories. Some were demolished many years ago. A fair number were subject to enemy action during World War II. There have also been recent demolitions.

 

Plans for the future

 

In time, this project could expand. All the buildings of the SBL could be recorded, including the headquarters, divisional and superintendents' offices, teacher training schools, manual instruction, art and science, domestic training, cookery and laundry centres, schools for the blind, deaf, delicate and "mentally defective", higher grade schools, open air schools, industrial schools, SBL swimming pools and buildings outside London. There were many such buildings and some are known to remain.

In the long term it would be fruitful to include the schools of the other School Boards in Outer London.