Scout Hall in Stepney Green
Scout Hall in Stepney Green
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Scout Hall in Stepney Green
SC_PHL_01_399_84_4865 (Collage 120336)
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A view of the yard and Scout Hall at the rear of numbers 27a-33 Stepney Green, Stepney. There is a parked Mini van, bags of cement piled by the wall and a discarded bath. The Scout Hall has been demolished and Roland Mews now occupies the site. Number 29, the Grade II listed Roland House, was for many years an important part of scouting in London and the United Kingdom. The House on the Green, as it was known, was home to several scout leaders from groups in east London, a Scout library, a hostel for visitors from the United Kingdom and abroad, the headquarters of a Rover Scout Crew and a Scout shop. Roland House was named after, and became a memorial to, Captain Roland Erasmus Philipps 1890-1916, an early Scout leader who, in his will, left the house to the Scouts of East London. Philipps was appointed Commissioner of Boy Scouts for north east and east London in 1913, wrote several books on scouting, and served as an officer in the British army during World War I, where he was awarded the Military Cross for his actions. He was killed on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Roland House was sold in 1963, generating funds to buy the present Headquarters named the Roland Philipps Scout Centre in Copley Street.
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