Conway School, Plumstead
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Conway School, Plumstead
Image: © Marathon Taken: 5 Feb 2021
Victorian Board Schools like this one put many modern architects to shame. This has always been a poor area and yet the two towers are quite something. Sherlock Holmes said about the Board Schools to Watson "Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." said Watson. "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.487193
Longitude
0.088891