THE BEGINNING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL MOVEMENT
The Ragged School movement was born in a tiny house in Highmury street, Old Portsmouth. Towards the end of the eighteenth .century, it was the, home of John Pounds, a cripple and a cobbler. Pounds had a Great love of children, and he gathered the poor children from the slum round him and taught them to read and write.. He was so poor that he could not afford school books. Instead he used fragments of newspaper, and any other printed material that he could pick up. To attract the children to his classes he used to share his food with them. Later on his work became known and others took up the good work the cobbler bad started.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 15
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125THE BEGINNING OF THE RAGGED SCHOOL MOVEMENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 15
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