The first indoor meeting of the mission which became The Salvation Army was held here on 3rd September 1865.
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
E1, New Road, 23
Booth moved his meetings which had begun in the summer in a tent inside as the winter approached. The building was known as the Assembly Rooms or Professor Orson's Dancing Academy (its week-time use).
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Salvation Army - indoors
A Protestant church internationally renowned for its charitable works. Founde...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Salvation Army - indoors
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Sir Henry unveiled his own plaque.
He lived here for nearly 50 years from 1936 until his death in 1983.
Plaque unveiled by Mercury's sister and Brian May. We thought it strange that English Heritage decided that his real first name was Fred...
Our photo is taken from the east. In the background you can see the inside of the retained arched stone entrance to The Colonnade from G...
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
This 1981 Quinlan Terry building was originally the vestry or parish hall. It is decorated with trompe l'oeil statuary, 2 items on each o...
This shop front has, like a lot of shop fronts of this period, atop the flanking pillars, decorative capitals and corbels. On this shop ...
During WW2 the US armed forces worshipped at the Grosvenor Chapel and partied at Rainbow Corner. This seems a good place to mention the searchable on-line honour roll of 28,000 Americans based in ...
19th century houses are frequently decorated with terracotta decorations, often painted. These tend to repeat and recur and we assume the...
There are four of these delightful heads - all different, from right to left: - beard, pointed ears, bad teeth, shell and leaves on head...
