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...
In our photo the plaque can be seen above the head of the passer-by on the right.
In our rather shady photo the Fred Hampton mural can just be seen, low down, below the window on the left side of the building. The Reic...
Francisco de Miranda 1750 - 1816 lived in this house between 1803 and 1810. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the forerunner of the i...
The BBC (who else?) have a good post about their time here. Pity this plaque had no room to mention John Logie Baird.
This small plaque is rather hidden behind plants. We don't understand the monogram ("NJ" with a head?) but guess is it commemorating the...
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