What Does this Say?

Oh, I've found the Mission Chapel on an OS map:).

Go to this map
http://maps.nls.uk/view/103313336

Magnify it a reasonable bit so that you can read the road names around London Bridge station. Then follow the railway line on the west side going south-eastwards until you pass the 'Technical College (Leather)' and reach the next signal box. Abbey Street is just by there. The Mission Chapel is marked on the north side of Abbey Street between Maltby Street and Stanworth Street.
 
Well done, Flook.


Ma-dotcom said:
Definition of MISSION CHURCH. : a church that is not locally self-supporting but that depends at least partially upon the support of mission funds from the larger religious organization that established it.
Mission church - Merriam-Webster.com
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I often wondered about that (but obviously not enough to find out!) There was a mission chapel that I used to pass every day as a child. Ours was only a small hamlet but served by two Welsh-speaking chapels, an Anglican church and a mission chapel. Thanks to this thread, I've started looking into the latter, which has long since closed.
 
MollyMay said:
Thanks Flook - I see Riley Street, where they were living too:)
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What's so very odd is that last evening I was doing some work on a great aunt of mine who died in a Bermondsey Medical Mission home in Bickley. Lo and behold I looked up your Harry West and saw he lived in Riley Street which was where the BMM founded a pioneering training home for women nurses in 1901. Isn't life strange.
 
It certainly is Flook - sadly Harry died in 1884 and after many moves, by 1901 his deserted mum and siblings were in Brentford Union Workhouse:(
 
Thank you Wendy - he was my Nan's brother (although she was born 2 years after he died). She being number 8 in a family of 12 children, he was number 4. To clarify, he was baptised in1883 but born in 1878 - they did not rush to the church quickly with any of them;)
 
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