A quick shoutout to the blog, and a new item on The Ragged School Museum , a guest post by Stanley Slaughter. The museum is on Copperfield Road, Mile End, London which was previously a ragged school operated by Thomas Barnardo. The school taught tens of thousands of local children until it closed in 1908. The blog post tells the story of Alex Mead, who attended the ragged school for four years before moving to Canada at age 15, and serving with the CEF.