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Bill Saville started attending Kingsley Hall
Bow as a young boy.
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Kingsley Hall, Bow is in
Powis Road, Bow, E3
History

The building is
Grade II listed [IoE
206183],
Pioneer East End community centre founded by peace campaigners
Muriel and Doris Lester.
Design included main hall also used for worship and five rooftop cells
for community volunteers. Links with Gandhi, George Lansbury, R D
Laing's Philadelphia Association 1965-1970. Set for
Attenborough's
Gandhi 1983. |
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Kingsley Hall, Bow photographed
by Bill Saville in the 1990's |
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I first visited in October 2008, the year in which the building
celebrated its 80th Anniversary |
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View from the side in the garden .... |
.... which is reached down a side passage |
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Plaque recording
visit of Gandhi in 1931 |
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Click for
views of the interior |
Visit by the
Conservation Group
March 9, 2009 |
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Views from the roof towards
Upton Park ...... |
.... Canary Wharf |
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... and down to "Bob's Garden" named after a 1950s gardener |
"Children's House" is just round the corner |