Houses in Stepney Green
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Houses in Stepney Green
Houses in Stepney Green
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SC_PHL_01_399_84_4867 (Collage 120338)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of the garden and rear elevation of numbers 27a-33 Stepney Green, Stepney. Two storey terraced houses with attic rooms and basements. Number 29, Roland House, has steps leading up to a balconied back door which has columns and a plinth above. These rear gardens were the site of Roland House Scout Hall, which has been demolished and replaced with Roland Mews, a housing development. 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.
A view of the garden and rear elevation of numbers 27a-33 Stepney Green, Stepney. Two storey terraced houses with attic rooms and basements. Number 29, Roland House, has steps leading up to a balconied back door which has columns and a plinth above. These rear gardens were the site of Roland House Scout Hall, which has been demolished and replaced with Roland Mews, a housing development. 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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