Editing Woolwich (section)

==== Education ====
[[File:2016 Woolwich, Calderwood St, Polytechnic 02.jpg|thumb|Woolwich Polytechnic, 1891]]
[[University of Greenwich|Woolwich Polytechnic]] was founded in 1891. As well as providing a higher education facility, it also provided secondary school facilities, including the still-extant (but now relocated) [[Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys]].<ref name="AIM25-schools">{{cite web|title=Woolwich Polytechnic Day Schools|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=6088&inst_id=61|website=AIM25|access-date=24 April 2017|archive-date=24 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424175615/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=6088&inst_id=61|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 20th century the Polytechnic grew steadily, taking up almost an entire block in the [[Bathway Quarter]] and later spreading to other areas. In 1970 it merged with other local colleges and became Thames Polytechnic. In 1992 it was granted [[New Universities|university status]] and a year later was renamed the [[University of Greenwich]]. In 2001, the university relocated to the [[Old Royal Naval College]] in [[Greenwich]], leaving only a small administrative presence in Woolwich.<ref>Saint & Guillery (2012), pp. 269–275</ref>

Woolwich was the location of the first free [[kindergarten]] in the UK. The Woolwich Mission Kindergarten opened in 1900, and began in a room provided by a Christian socialist vicar of Holy Trinity church in New Charlton, the Rev. Walter Wragge. It was founded by his sister, Adelaide Wragge, the [[Friedrich Fröbel|Fröbel]]-influenced principal of Blackheath Kindergarten Training College.<ref>Brehony, Kevin J., (2000) "The kindergarten in England 1851–1918". In: Wollons, Roberta (2000). Kindergartens and cultures: the global diffusion of an idea. New Haven. Yale University Press. p. 72</ref>