Month: February 2015

On the 3rd of May, 2013, our Splash team went to the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre for a workshop with the Poet-in-residence Ms Anna Robinson. We went there to carry on with our story projects. We got a really nice room so we felt very special. We were given old photographs of people and places from the Waterloo area and wrote short stories – Flash Fiction – about them. We imagined we were actually in the pictures ourselves.

We had a great time discussing ideas and being creative with our own stories. My piece was called ‘The Story of the Festival’. We had a really good time as a team working with the Lambeth Heritage Project at Coin Street and would like to go back and do more!

By William D.

The first trip we went on was to research the history of Coin Street and the local area around the London Nautical School. I found out that the Oxo Tower was where they used to make Oxo cubes in the 1930s. By the River Thames is an old building called the Barge House where the the royal barges used to be kept since Tudor times!
By Karver J.

We discovered so many different interesting facts about our local area. Mr Len Rielly showed us old photographs of how the area looked in years gone by. In general I had a really good time fact finding and exploring.
By William D.

The LNS Splash Team visit St.John’s Church, Waterloo, built after the victorious battle of Trafalgar and dedicated to one of our Nation’s heros, Admiral Lord Nelson.

Umayer: On the outside of the church was a sentence (carved in stone along the roof). It read: ‘All may have if they dare try a glorious life or grave’. I thought this saying was very interesting.

Haxhi: On one of our trips we visited the Lambeth Archives to research historical documents such as old maps from the 18th and 19th century. We also saw photographs of the LNS and Waterloo area. We researched old records from the past such as documents of the London Nautical School which told us that our school had been an orphanage and hospital for incoming settlers from Ireland.

Josh: We learnt from an old record book at Lambeth Archives that our school was first established as a charity ‘hospital’ in 1911 by a Lt.L.Menzies formerly of the Royal Navy.

Mushrak: The ‘hospital’ (from the word ‘hospitality’) then became known as St. Patrick’s and looked after many adults and children who had come across the sea and had lost their families along the way.

Shpetim: After the sinking of the ‘Titanic’ in 1912, St.Patrick’s became a training college for young boys and was renamed the London Nautical School in 1915.