Places in the BOOK

Smithfield Market

Young Chimney Sweep

Chatham Boyhood Home


Gads Hill Place

Marshalsea Prison

Charles Dickens Primary School

Newgate Prison

Boz

Charles Dickens Museum

London Foundling Hospital Chapel

"Received a Blank Child" by Dickens


The Yorkshire Schools (scene from Jane Eyre based on experiences of Bronte sisters in Lowood


The Ragged Schools


Thomas Barnardo's Orphanage

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Poor Children


Dickens - Westminster Abbey

An Interactive Learning Experience - HERE


Handel's "Blessed Are They that Considereth the Poor"  LISTEN
   Psalm 41:1-3
1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

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Handel’s music text:

Blessed are they that considereth the poor and needy:
the Lord will deliver them in time of trouble,
the Lord preserve them and comfort them.
They deliver the poor that crieth, the fatherless
and him that hath none to help him.
The Lord will comfort them.
O God, who from the suckling’s mouth
ordaineth early praise,
of such as worship Thee in truth
accept the humble lays.

The charitables shall be had in everlasting remembrance
and the good will shine as the brightness of the firmament.

Comfort them, O Lord, when they are sick:
make thou their bed in sickness.
Keep them alive, let them be blessed upon the earth
and not deliver them unto their foes.

Hallelujah.
The Kingdom of this world
is become the kingdom of our Lord
and of His Christ,
and He shall reign forever and ever.
Hallelujah!

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Blessed are they that considereth the poor (Foundling Hospital Anthem), HWV 268, composed byGeorge Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and first performed May 27, 1749

Handel offered his first benefit concert for the Hospital in 1749 to fund the completion of the Chapel, and composed the anthem Blessed are they that considereth the poor, known as the Foundling Hospital Anthem, for this occasion. (source: Foundling Museum)

HANDEL'S "MESSIAH" COMPOSED TO BENEFIT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.  HIS BEST KNOWN COMPOSITION!!!  WATCH & LISTEN


Will Hogarth --painter (his images forced people to look, to see)