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Chesterfield Ragged School Chapel
Heritage Open Day: See an old factory from the 1830s which was converted into a Victorian Ragged School in 1878 and has been run since that date to the present day entirely by volunteers for the benefit of the local community. One of the most remarkable charitable enterprises of the Victorian era was the Ragged School movement. Child poverty and deprivation was rife in industrial towns and cities. Unpaid volunteers did their best in church and chapel Sunday schools but some slum areas needed mor
Sat 21 Sep:10.00 to 16.00 plus concert by Stonebroom Gospel Crusaders Choir at 19.00 to 21.00. Sun 22 Sep:18.00 to 20.00. Harvest Celebration Service commencing 18.30. Free Entry.
Ragged School Evangelical Church, Markham Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S40 1TA
Sat 21 Sep 2019 and Sun 22 Sep 2019
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/chesterfield-ragged-school-chapel/chesterfield-ra
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