Archive The Frances Mary Buss House
FMB House boys enjoyin g running
FMB House Junior Drama Group 1951
House was ‘no longer a place where schoolgirls could do any useful work’ and it was decided to close the club. In 1968, the premises were let to the Federation of Boys’ Youth Clubs, and in 1992 the Frances Mary Buss Trust let it on a forty-year lease to the Tower Hamlets branch of the mental health charity MIND (the charity still occupies the building today). Although the Frances Mary Buss House may no longer operate, charity and community service still remain core to NLCS values, and, as former deputy headmistress Ann Thomas wrote: ‘the spirit of service and commitment that made the House at
FMB House in the 1940s
Bromley-by-Bow possible still flourishes at the school Miss Buss founded’. By Joelaine Fitch (2006)
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