Sharp Street Ragged School, Sharp Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester
This school was established in 1853 and rebuilt in 1869. According to the Manchester Geographical Society 'a “Ragged School” was opened on this site in 1854 by a group of evangelical Christians who wished to raise the spiritual and moral tone of an area which was becoming notorious in Manchester for squalor and vice. The curriculum was of a very basic nature – the teaching of simple arithmetic, writing and reading, along with Bible-based religious and moral instruction'.
