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This blue commemorative plaque records: Bluecoat Hospital. This was the site of the medieval hospital of St. John the Baptist. The present building dating from 1717 was a charity school founded by Bishop Stratford in 1700 to house and educate poor boys. Bluecoat School with it's distinctive uniform, continued until 1949.
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