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...
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Salvation Army - indoors
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
The Christopher Jones statue is on the left of the picture, and Prince Lee Boo's tomb in the centre (next to the rather incongruous child...
Westminster City Council James Purdey the younger, 1828 - 1909, gunmaker, built these premises in 1880 to house his new showrooms and wo...
English Heritage Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, cartoonist, lived here at no. 33.
The Eagle Tavern, Grecian theatre, pleasure grounds, Grecian saloon & Olympic theatre, stood here, 1825 - 1899. Here Marie Lloyd, mu...
Site of the Salisbury Court Playhouse, 1629 - 1649. Corporation of the City of London
