Building    From 1924 

Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital

Categories: Community / Clubs

Building

Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a million people. As the London docks declined in the 1960s, 70s, the building became a hostel for the homeless, eventually closing in 1985.  In 1994 it was sold and converted into 50 flats and renamed 'The Mission'.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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