Tag: St John’s School
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Talk: A School at War – April 2026
A talk by group memeber Graham Reeves about St John’s Primary School during the 2nd World War. Drawing on research for his forthcoming book “A School for Penge Revisited”, Graham will spoke about how the children and staff of St John’s dealt with the challenges of the 2nd world war – including air raids, doodlebugs,…
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A Call for St. John’s School Connections
Many years ago I wrote a short history of St John’s School in Penge. Now I’m working with the school on a much-enlarged and updated version. The school has given me full access to its extensive archives which hold a wealth of materials going back as far as 1837. The problem is that there doesn’t…
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A History of St John’s School, Penge
Based on a presentation made to Penge History Group on 19 December 2023 In 1725 there were only 60 people living in Penge, which was a “detached hamlet” of Battersea, without a church of its own. Penge Chapel was opened in Croydon Road on 8 October 1837, by which time the population had risen to…
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