1920b Shoebury Gospel Hall of grey local bricks appeared between the 1922 and 1923 editions of Kelly's Directory as "Shoebury Mission Hall". A 1905 Gospel Hall was on another site near by.
But there is contemporaneous evidence from the O.S. 1=10,560 series map of 1920-1 of that particular gap in Wakering Avenue being filled earlier. This is confirmed on page 133 of The Shoebury Story by Maureen Oxford (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 142 pp.; 2000) where “Shoebury Hall” is reported to hold anniversary conferences commemorating the first service held in it in November 1920.
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