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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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