Born in Dublin, 178 years ago, Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905 ... whilst working as a superintendent at a ‘ragged school’ where children could get a free, basic education (sources disagree ...

A COUPLE of years ago Barnardo's celebrated 150 years since our founder Dr Thomas Barnardo set up his Ragged School in London. It was his response to being shown the desperate poverty in which ...

The school was opened in 1877 by philanthropist Thomas Barnardo, founder of the children’s charity which still bears his name, and operated until 1907, when the government started to open state ...

The £10,000 statue will be officially unveiled by David Barnardo, Thomas Barnardo's great-great ... John had attended the Hope Place Free School, a ragged school run by Dr Barnardo’s East ...

This is the challenge Martin Levy throws down to the reader in the middle of his account of Dr Thomas ... ragged schools for "perishing children" since 1850. The industrial schools, which, like ...

Have you ever heard of Thomas Barnardo? Do you know what he did and why he is still remembered today? What organisation did he found (start)? Do you know anything about the organisation’s work ...

AS A society we like to think we have come a long way since Dr Thomas Barnardo opened ... before opening his first home, Barnardo started his first ragged school, in an attempt to give the most ...