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...
At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site The Royal Horticultural Society was founded on the 7th March 1804.
Nearby Chiswick House was in the Cavendish family, 1758–1929, which explains their association with this church. The church's website sa...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
This plaque is on the low boundary wall, facing the pavement. The railings, proudly announced on the plaque, are no more, presumably remo...
In our photo the plaque can be seen through the gap in the railings, laid into the ground in front of the grass.
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