School for the Indigent Blind

A School for the Indigent Blind was established in London in 1799. This was emulating a similar establishment in Paris and other schools of this sort were also founded in Bristol, Edinburgh and Liverpool.

The London school started in the former premises of the Dog and Duck. When this was demolished to make way for Bethlem Hospital, the school was moved to another site on St George's Fields by the obelisk which now stands at St George's Circus.