Dilston Gallery. Former Clare College Mission Church + links to an 1880s England Footballer/Priest⬇️

[@Espiel78]

Thanks for taking us to such interesting places, Luke, and especially for sharing your research on their history. The church must have been beautiful in it's day, but for the present is spooky enough to be a Halloween attraction. Well, that's just over the horizon, so ready to go!

[@londonluke6487]

@Espiel78 Hi Salvatore. No problem at all. = It's a pleasure to share London's history with such lovely like-minded people! Yes, it must have been very impressive inside. "Sadly, I can find no old images of its interior." Yes indeed = this will make a perfect Halloween location! It definitely has that vibe. Glad you enjoyed the tour + thanks for the lovely comment!

[@Lysability]

That extension was the attached vicarage originally, Luke. xXx

[@londonluke6487]

@@Lysability Ah rite, cheers for this info mate = appreciate that "as there's not very much about it, online." Thanks again 👍xx

[@Lysability]

@@londonluke6487 ya welcome mate. If ya look closely past the extension you’ll find an original little window. Last time I looked it was starting to be consumed by ivy. Which grows rapidly on very old burial grounds. 😉 xXx

[@Lysability]

We used to get inside this church when we were teens. Before it was stripped to its bare bones. xXx

[@londonluke6487]

@Lysability That must have been a great, hang out spot 👌 Perfect for teens, lol. Do you remember what the interior was like, please? Xx

[@Lysability]

@@londonluke6487 It was full of dark wooden pews (obviously) 😂🙄 with lot’s of very tough leather kneelers & long pew cushions (they was thinner.) Very pretty with white ceilings. Slightly tinted multiple square lead windows that were boarded up from outside. All the bibles paintings & paperwork was just left there to be vandalised.😢 Those that have it now (mention no names) squatted for years & stripped it bare. Finally claiming some type of old squatters rights. That’s when we stopped going in there basically. Not before terrorising them for nicking our plot. 😠😂 There’s an old crypt below but like ya say no documents to say so, My eyes don’t lie though. 🤨🧐🤓 Same organisation have the old morgue in ya other video. 🫢🤔 xXx

[@Lysability]

You missed the little tiny stairway that used to take ya to the crypt beneath. The doorway’s was bricked up & concreted over. Those effing electric bikes were in the way.😂xXx kzbin.infozNsWSE4V2FI?si=XkDSri2wTQS4eWCW

[@londonluke6487]

@Lysability Hey there. Yeah, I saw that bricked up bit, someone delightful had, had a 💩 at the bottom of the stairs, which was nice + the bikes 😅. It does have a trapdoor to access it, which is inside = I wasn't allowed down there though "health n safety" 🙄😅xx

[@Lysability]

@@londonluke6487 Ya’right Luke. I sent ya one of my video links on one of yours. Showing the trapdoor. xXx

[@londonluke6487]

@@Lysability Morning Lysability. Thanks for sending that "decent little video, & shows the spot perfectly." I liked & subscribed to your channel 👌. Thanks again xx

[@Lysability]

@@londonluke6487 Oh wow nice one Luke, ThanxXx mate & ya welcome. I have to say though most of the information around Surrey Quays is false. Especially when it comes to Dilston Grove Norwegian Church the dates etc just don’t add up with what I know, but hey ho this is what they do to hide any truth. Clare Mission Church was a completely different building altogether & WAS just around the back of Dilston on the centre corner of Abbeyfield Road & Rotherhithe New Road. Bang opposite Costcutta there’s flats there now & no sign of the past. It was opposite another amazing grade 1 building (my favourite actually) of which is now a school for special needs. Lys 😂 with ability 😂 xXx

[@Lysability]

The Lady Gomm Memorial Mission House and Accident Hospital opened in 1885 for the benefit of the sick and poor of Rotherhithe. It was managed by the Anglican community of the Sisters of the Church, who also visited patients in their own homes.💙 xXx