The Ragged School Museum re-opens next Wednesday, made possible by a big grant (£4.8 million) from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, a model of sensitive restoration by Richard Griffiths keeping the atmosphere of the old, late Victorian school room overlooking the canal:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
I think I could probably walk from Limehouse DLR to the Ragged School blindfold. When my children were young we spent many days there thanks to the excellent arts and crafts schemes they ran in school holidays. I remember there was some sort of tie in with the Science Museum at one point and we were treated one day to a visit from an actor pretending to be an astronaut. There was also a very good tuck shop and selection of small gifts. A real community resource and good to see it coming back to life. The same is true of what I must now learn to call Young V&A.