2-699-290 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The London School Board Offices', (1881). Office of the London School Board on the Victoria Embankment. School boards were created in 1870. The London School Board covered the whole area of the Metropolitan Board of Works (Inner London). The Education Act of 1902 replaced boards with local education authorities. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]