PZ8817

Greenwich Hospital School boys in Trafalgar Square, 9 March 1872 Long Caption: Greenwich Hospital School was set up for the sons of poor seamen who were pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. After absorbing the separate Royal Naval Asylum in the 1820s (which had occupied what are now the NMM buildings from 1806) it became much larger and also educated girls until 184. In 1892 it was formally renamed the Royal Hospital School and in 1833 left Greenwich for Holbrook, Suffolk, where it continues to thrive as an independent school, again co-educational since the late 1980s. It has a strong and longstanding musical tradition, the boys left centre here being members of the School band. Mounted on sheet with PAI8814-PAI8816. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAI8817 Artist: unknown Date: 1872 Medium: photogravure; line Size: 160 mm x 223 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.