| Description | Invitation from the Chairman (Mr Arthur Lindo) and members of the Building Committee of the Gates of Hope, Villareal and National Infant Schools to the opening of their new building in Thrawl Street, Spitalfields by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Albany. Replies to the Vestry Offices, Heneage Lane, Bevis Marks, London EC. |
| AdminHistory | Schools founded by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation. Gates of Hope School (Shaare Tikva) was a boys' school, founded in 1664. The Villareal School was a girls' school founded in 1730, endowed by Isaac da Costa Villa Real (d. 1737). Over a century later the schools were amalgamated with the National Infant School, founded in 1839; transferred to the control of the London School Board, 1885; moved from Heneage Lane to Thrawl Street in 1897. Ceased to operate as an ordinary school, 1923. |