Built as Battersea Town Hall this building became became a community arts centre in 1974.
Wikipedia has a plan of the ground floor showing the Grand Hall at the rear of the building. This, and the lower hall, were extensively damaged by fire on 13 March 2015 but have been innovatively restored and brought back into use.
Further information: Guardian, BAC, David Jubb.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Battersea Arts Centre fire
On the afternoon of Friday 13th March 2015, a fire started in the Grand Hall....
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Graham Andrew Berkeley was born on 12 January 1964 in Nottinghamshire. He had moved to the United States ...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 21. Buried in grave 1 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Born Dinah Hopwood, her birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1951 in Bromley, Kent. She was the daug...
Conservative politician. Longest serving Leader of the Greater London Council, 1967 - 73. In 1981 became Baron Plummer of St Marylebone.
The palace of Westminster has been the home of Parliament since a meeting there in 1295. It split into two "houses" in 1341 but, having been built as a royal residence, the palace had no suitable m...
Sculptor. She was born in Paris and moved to London to pursue her career.
Islington Town Clerk in 1894, 1897 and 1906. Was interviewed by the Charles Booth survey of London. Our colleague Andrew Behan provides: "William Francis Dewey was born in Portsea, Hampshire, the...
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