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...
Gavin Maxwell, 1914 - 1969, naturalist and writer lived here, 1961 - 1965.
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Reading left to right these plaques are: Tide - 1874, Wall - 1817, Tide - 1928. We think the organisation for which the Wardens worked...
The inscription on the upper plaque requires careful examination to read but it is all legible. We have found two references to these sto...
In our photo the plaque can be seen between the trees and above the car.
A custom-made plaque, but nonetheless a very attractive one.
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