8:00am Saturday 27th April 2013
in News
Streatham Guardian.co.uk
By Nick Hitchens
A Clapham care home unveiled a plaque honouring an historic deaf school that stood on its grounds more than 50 years ago at an event on Sunday.
Photo: Leon Smith, Chief Executive of Nightingale Hammerson; Wandsworth Mayor Adrian Knowles; Norma Lebihan former teacher at the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children; Shanee Buxton Headmistress of Oak Lodge School now located on the site.
Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Adrian Knowles was among more than 60 guests who attended the event at Nightingale House, where the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children stood between 1899 and 1965.
Members of the Jewish Deaf Association, which offers support to people with hearing loss and their families, were joined by former teachers and students of the school, as well as Shanee Buxton, Headmistress of Oak Lodge School which also now occupies part of the land.
Both Nightingale House and the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children had their properties donated by local philanthropists of the time Lord Wandsworth and his brother Sir Edward Stern in the 1800s.
