IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): N/C/44
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: VICTORIA PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, APPROACH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN
Date(s): 1905-1950
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Congregational Church of England and Wales
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Victoria Park Congregational Church was registered in 1865 at an iron chapel opened in 1864. A new building was constructed at the south-west junction of Approach and Bonner Roads, seating 2,000, in 1869. The church had the highest Congregational attendance in Bethnal Green in 1886, when 885 attended morning service and 953 attended in the evening, and in 1903, when 412 attended in the morning and 625 in the evening. The Church life was vigorous, including Sunday schools at Victoria Hall and Twig Folly, free concerts, and work among poor, missions, and ragged schools. Labour leader Benjamin Tillett (d. 1943), was librarian in the 1880s. The building was damaged in 1940 and closed in 1953. The site was acquired by neighbouring Parmiter's school.
From: 'Bethnal Green: Protestant Nonconformity', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 228-240.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Register of baptisms, 1905-1950.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One volume.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: Depositor
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited 18 March 1965 (AC/65/024).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: January to March 2009