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...
Ernest Christopher Dowson, poet, 1867 - 1900. lived in a house which stood on this site. London Borough of Lewisham
The plaque is around the corner in Dawes Street.
John, sculptor, lived and died here, B. 1755, D. 1826, Flaxman. {In the border, interleaved with the links of a chain, are the letters of...
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.
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