Show oldest school in england eng band like all superlative claims there are those who doubt that the kings grammar school at canterbury la Is the oldest but the evidence points out that it was established in A D by the bishop shop felir lovers of dickens will recall that ile he claimed it to be the oldest when lie he sent david to dickens who hoi perhaps given elsewhere pictures of the worst school in england the kings school was the ideal school a grave building in a courtyard with a learned air about it that seemed very well suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws who came from the cathedral towers to walk with a clerk clerkly bearing on the grass plot |