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View east across High Road, Tottenham N17 from Pembury Road. The Bluecoats pub has been - as their website put it, "sympathetically restored and reopened in the summer of 2018". Previously it was 'Pride of Tottenham', also a pub.

The building was originally a school for girls established in 1735, and rebuilt 1833 in the 'Jacobean' style. In 1886 it became a private girls’ school; which finally closed in 1930. The building was later used for shops including a carpet store. _________________________________________

§ History of The Blue Coat School

[From <a href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol5/pp364-376" rel="noreferrer nofollow">BHO British History Online</a>. A mine of information. This excerpt published as a review and recommendation. Please read and enjoy.]

"The Blue Coat school (fn. 20) was established by local subscribers c. 1735, as the first school in Edmonton hundred to offer primary education other than of a dame school type to the poor."   "Presumably it always stood on the east side of High Road at Scotland Green, where Thomas Smith conveyed land to trustees in 1797 and where it was rebuilt in 1833. (fn. 21) The new building, in the Jacobean style, contained a schoolroom for 80 children and adjoined a mistress's house.   About 40 girls, aged 7 to 14, were clothed and educated in 1833; numbers had risen to 60 by 1840, when a further 10 received instruction alone. A committee of subscribers under the vicar nominated pupils and appointed weekly visitors.   The income came mainly from subscriptions, an annual charity sermon, and the girls' needlework. (fn. 22) Investments were worth £1,500 in 1840; Thomas Barber, by will proved 1844, left £250 to the school, whose funds had reached £2,000 by 1857. (fn. 23)   Part of the stock was sold in 1876, after the parish had given the trustees the site of an adjoining watch-house; the blue uniform was thereupon discontinued and the accommodation enlarged to take 120 pupils, as part of the campaign against a school board.   The school was converted into Tottenham middle class girls' school in 1886, whereupon modest fees were charged until their abolition by the local education committee in 1903.   Attendance for a time remained well below capacity: 56 in 1888, (fn. 24) 77 ten years later, when a parliamentary grant was being paid, and 112 by 1906. Places were said to be in heavy demand in 1927, (fn. 25) when the premises were condemned as too small, but in 1930 the pupils were moved to All Hallows school.   The 19th-century building, converted into shops, survived in 1973."

§ In the photo above the litter bin displays the official <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanstanton/22176335195/">£86,000 Joego bozo logo</a> of Haringey Council. Nesting between the bin and the bollard is the unofficial logo - a pile of waste bags.