Evening classes - Civil Service instruction
Front of the Strand School, BrixtonThe practical and commercial purpose of King's was fully realised from around 1875 with the training of applicants to a Civil Service that had now been opened up more fully to competitive examination.
At its peak in 1896-97, it taught 1,500 young men - more than the total in the day college.
Women applicants for the Post Office were also admitted from 1881 and taught in the School classrooms in the basement. They were kept strictly separate from the other students and required to enter via the separate school entrance.
From 1892, a commercial day school was opened teaching surveyors, excise officials and telegraph operators.
When King's College School moved to Wimbledon in 1897, the commercial department, now rechristened the 'Strand School', was transferred to its basement premises. After a decade a separate building was provided in South London.
The department eventually became independent and moved out of King's to new premises in Holborn and Brixton on the eve of the First World War.
In this exhibition
- London life 1828-1880s
- Wider college
- King's College School
- School discipline
- King's College Hospital
- Evening classes
- Evening classes - Civil Service instruction
- Women
- Academic Life
- College at War
- Providing a different vision
- Social and community work