Bow: Kingsley Hall

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Bill Saville started attending Kingsley Hall Bow as a young boy. He met and was greatly influenced by Muriel & Doris Lester In 1931 he met Mahatma Gandhi and Bill's account of the visit was syndicated across India
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.

Kingsley Hall, Bow photographed by Bill Saville in the 1990's

I first visited in October 2008, the year in which the building celebrated its 80th Anniversary

View from the side in the garden ....		.... which is reached down a side passage

The main hall looking to the front. I was there for a day's training in Oral History for the Archive Project

Interesting features

The plaque recording Gandhi's stay there in 1931		A bust which is inside the Hall
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The roof garden where he spent time in prayer

"Children's House" is just round the corner

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