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....
B.A. (Hons) is a university degree. Andrew Kevin Burdett was born on 12 December 1953. He died, aged 34 years, in the King's Cross Underground Station fire on 18 November 1987. The subsequent fire ...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family were murdered in Ekaterinburg on the 4th July 1918. Tsar Nicholas of Russia (1868 - 1918) ruled from 1 November 1894 - 15 March 1917. WW1 led to the February Re...
A member of the Imperial Camel Corps for which he provided the statue in Embankment Gardens.
As Prime Minister in September 1938, according to his policy of appeasement, Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler which appeared to avert war by sacrificing the Sudetenland. ('Peace ...
Unusually, this park was created out of land which had previously been built on. It is one of the largest parks in south London, and is still unfinished. The area was developed in the 19th century ...
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