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No man living, in my estimation, is more worthy of success for the devotion of his heart, the perseverence of his character, the magnificence of his object, and the way in which he has laboured, by day and by night until he has completed this great issue.\"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"The Great Assembly Hall was built in 1886 by the philanthropist and social reformer Frederick Charrington. It was a place for religious meetings as well as a hub for community activities, and could hold up to 5000 people. It was destroyed by bombing in 1941, but Charrington's work continues in the Tower Hamlets Mission.\n\nThis object was part of the John Edmund Gardner collection of topographical prints and drawings of London. 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