Kinglsey Mission Hall in Powis Road
Kinglsey Mission Hall in Powis Road
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Record No
98993
Title
Kinglsey Mission Hall in Powis Road
Description
Front and side elevations of Kingsley Mission Hall, Powis Road, Poplar, looking east. The view is from the car park of Northleigh House with boundary low wall and iron railings. Kingsley Hall is a four-storey brick building with iron railing balcony in front of three tall arched windows on the second floor. The building is derelict with many of the windows broken and the first floor windows facing the street are boarded up. A blue plaque on the wall reads "Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) stayed here in 1931" and the room where Ghandi stayed has been preserved. In 1935, hunger marchers on the Jarrow March stayed at the Hall. From 1965-70 Kingsley Hall became home to the Philadelphia Association and one of the most radical experiments in psychiatry but had to close due to hostility from local residents which is why it has been boarded up. To the right of the building, behind a wire mesh fence is a small garden with raised flower beds. To the left of the building is a vacant lot where some of the odd numbered houses on Bruce Road have been demolished revealing the exposed interior of one. Kingsley Hall was Grade II listed in 1973; List Entry Number 1357884. The negative appears to be damaged with a series of dark oval fog marks running across the lower half.
Date of execution
1976
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_293_76_14388
London picture map location
Exact
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