Lansbury Lawrence School (formally Susan Lawrence School) is a primary school in the
Lansbury Estate in the
Poplar area of the
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London boroughs, London borough covering much of the traditional East End of London, East End. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropol ...
.
The school was designed by the architectural firm
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall.
[ It was built in 1949–1950 and was debuted in the 1951 ]Festival of Britain
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. Historian Kenneth O. Morgan says the Festival was a "triumphant success" during which people:
...
as a showpiece of the "Live Architecture" exhibition.
Susan Lawrence
Arabella Susan Lawrence (12 August 1871 – 24 October 1947) was a British Labour Party politician, one of the earliest female Labour MPs.
Early life
Lawrence was the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Tertius Lawrence, a wealthy solicitor, and ...
, an MP who had represented the area.[
The school is ]Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1951
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
1951 establishments in England
Primary schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Community schools in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Poplar, London
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