Chiswick House, London
Maison Dieu, Faversham
Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind, Liverpool
Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability, Teddington
The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate
Guild of the Brave Poor Things, Bristol
St Saviour’s Deaf Church, Acton
Grove Road Housing Scheme, Sutton-in-Ashfield
England’s first public institution for deaf children known as ‘London Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor’ was started in London in 1792. It was the result of campaigning by a Bermondsey priest, Rev John Townsend, who believed education for deaf children should not just be for the very wealthy.
