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Hammersmith Schools for Boys

Renowned actors, sportsmen and musicians have been educated in Hammersmith. Earlier this month a group of 30 followed me along the River Thames to learn about some former pupils of Latymer School and St Paul’s School. Latymer Upper School is nearly 400 years old, having been founded in 1624 by Edward Latymer (1557-1627). A prosperous lawyer, he eft part of wealth for the clothing and education of “eight poor boys” from Hammersmith. The clothing, which included a doublet, a pair of breeches, a shirt incorporated a red cross on the left sleeve, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes, was to be distributed twice a year on Ascension Day and All Sa...

Bath time, Londinium style

...ing (most welcome during those cold and damp British winters), which is well preserved. The house is believed to have been built in the late 2nd century AD. In the following century a bathhouse was added in the courtyard. Bathers entered it from the north side, where there were two small rooms either side - a tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium (hot room) - before they finished cooling off in the frigidarium (cold room). It seems the northern wing was abandoned before the rest of the building complex. A hoard of over 270 coins, dated to after 395AD, was found in the furnace wall, which suggests it was still in use well into the 400s. A mid-5th cen...