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Local Legends
The stories behind some of the East End's famous people and
events
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William Booth
Founder of the Salvation Army
1829 - 1912
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William Booth promised “Heaven in East London for everyone.” He set up the Salvation Army. He was an Evangelist.
On Sunday 2 July 1865, Booth set up a platform in a large tent erected on a Quaker burial ground at the Mile End Waste. Thus was launched what was to become the Salvation Army. It was set up to help the poor and needy. It never accepted the Victorian idea of the “deserving poor”, [i.e. they deserve what they get] but rather; if a man was poor, he was deserving.
The Salvation Army set up Soup Kitchens, where large bowls of soup and bread were supplied for one penny to the very poor, and for nothing to those who were penniless. It also set up lodging houses for poor people to sleep off the streets.
It was in 1878 that the work William Booth was doing was titled the Salvation Army, and all the militarism was introduced; uniforms, banners, bands drilling and marching. |
Assembly and classroom exhibitions available for use
by Tower Hamlets Schools from Schools Library Service:
Maria Dickin and the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals of the Poor.
Clara Grant, the Bundle Women of Bow, and the story of the Fern St. Settlement.
Pheobe Hessel, the Amazon of Stepney.
Levina Teerlinc, Gentlewoman of the Queen.
Sylvia Pankhurst, the Suffragettes, and Votes for Women.
Hannah Billig, the Angel of Stepney.
These exhibitions were developed by young people in Tower Hamlets
with Rosemary Taylor and Doreen Kendall of East London History Society and Maggie Hewitt of Oxford House for Women’s History Week.
Contact the SLS on 020 7364 6428
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