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The Life and Activities of
Thomas Barnardo
Thomas Barnardo born in
Dublin 1865
Barnardo sets up a
“Ragged School”
where poor children of
1867 East London can get a
basic education
A group of boys outside the “Edin-
burgh Castle”
The first home for
boys opened in Stepney
Causeway. Boys trained
in carpentry, metalwork, 1870
and shoemaking, giving
them new opportunities
to find work or appren-
ticeships
Boys in technical training to make boots
in Stepney Causeway
Barnardo purchases the
lease of The Edinburgh
Castle, a “gin palace
1872 and music hall” in Lime-
house, and converts it
into a coffee house and
mission church
