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ragged school

noun

  1. (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It's sorely tempting to reduce California's ragged school reopening effort to a couple of central forces.

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In Hackney, London – where I live – they gave several performances, inspiring a local ragged school to set up the UK’s first gospel choir.

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She founded a ragged school, bringing education to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.

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The records of The Ragged School Museum, in London, contain photographs of children wearing very individual uniforms at Hamlet of Radcliff School, a charity school founded in 1910.

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The museum is housed in three huge canalside buildings, which once formed the largest ragged school in run by Dr Thomas Barnardo.

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