Arthur Baker was born on November 10, 1924, on the Boundary Estate, Shoreditch, east London. For those who know the area, his family lived in Clifton Buildings, a block of flats on the square with the bandstand at its centre. He passed the Junior County Scholarship (the forerunner of the 11-plus exam) which got him into Dame Alice Owen's, a boys' grammar school then situated at the Angel, Islington. The Owen's girls' school was bombed during the Second World War and later rebuilt, becoming the home of the Department of Optometry and Visual Science of City University in 1977 when Owen's moved to Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, as a co-educational school. The department later moved on to purpose-built premises in 2000.
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