Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a million people. As the London docks declined in the 1960s, 70s, the building became a hostel for the homeless, eventually closing in 1985. In 1994 it was sold and converted into 50 flats and renamed 'The Mission'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Empire Memorial Sailors' Hospital
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