This photos show Rev. Knapper (in the white surplice, front left) at the opening ceremony for the hall. His daughters, now Kate Dillon (with the cushion) and Rosemary Watkins, are contributing to the ceremony of the occasion. The people are standing in the entrance porch where the plaques are now on the right hand wall. It shows how the doors and side windows have been changed.
Image source: Kate Dillon
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
All Saints Haggerston Church Hall
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Haggerston Road School - destroyed
{Upper plaque:} Original schools destroyed by enemy action 1941. This hall er...
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Wandsworth Society
A community group with the aim of safeguarding the character, quality and integrity of the environment around Wandsworth.
1 memorial
Marine Society
From the Marine Society: "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to ...
1 memorial
Bermondsey Settlement
The Settlement Movement began in England and the U.S.A in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s. Its aim was to get the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent c...
1 memorial
Baker Street Irregulars
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2 memorials
Sir Walter Besant
Novelist and London historian. Born Portsmouth. 1884 co-founded the Society of Authors. Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Originator of the People's Palace. First president of The Hamp...
3 memorials
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