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1853 |
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St Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square was consecrated and began to run classes ‘in a miserable hired room’ soon afterwards. |
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1861 |
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A public meeting held in 1861 decided that ‘the rapid increase in the number of the poorer classes in this district renders it a matter of urgent necessity to provide means for the education of the children’. |
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1862 |
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The Church opened a school on Distillery Lane, later called Glasgow Terrace, under the lee of Octavius Smith’s establishment. It was equipped with a bell hanging for swing chiming from an open gable. |
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2019 |
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The bells was restored back to working order in the summer, ready for the new term in September. |