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This plaque commemorates the building of a new schoolroom for St. Edward's school (formed when the Charity School united with the National Society in 1834):
This plaque commemorates the building of a new schoolroom for St. Edward's school (formed when the Charity School united with the National Society in 1834):

NATIONAL SCHOOL
FOR
HORNCHURCH
ROMFORD & HAVERING
ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION
1834

The plaque now hangs on a wall opposite the entrance to the foyer of primary school.2

1 Victoria History of the County of Essex, volume VII, page 92.
2 Photographed by kind permission of the headmaster, February 2000.
 

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