Side View of Limehouse Town Hall © 2004 GFDL

Atelier Joly

Built in 1879 as one of the London Dockland's great civic centres, this Grade 2 listed building has been a prominent historical landmark.Visited by King George V and Queen Mary, it was the site of one of Clement Atlee's last speeches as Prime Minister in 1951, and housed the collection of the National Museum of Labour History between 1975 and 1986, which included an exhibition of TradeUnion's Banners and the writing desk of the Russian political philosopher Prince Peter Kropotkin. Since then it has been used as Wapping Neighbourhood office, a temporary home for the George's BoxingClub, and emergency winter shelter for the homeless.

Since the year 2000, the Limehouse Town Hall Consortium, a group made up of the four arts-related organisations working in the Town Hall have been collaborating on managing the building and developing plans for its renovation and long-term sustainability. Through their education programmes, social enterprise, cultural events, publications and workshop activities, they are committed to bringing this unique buliding and its historical relevance back to life and into public use as the civic centre it once was.

Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust

The four organisations that make up the Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust, and the wide network of groups and individuals whose use of the building they facilitate, represent a huge diversity of skills, interests and communities. The four core organisations that make up the trust are:

• Creative Week:    The free, independent newspaper for London's creatives
• Primal Pictures:    An independent film production company.
• Stitches in Time:    A community arts organisation working on community development programmes for local people and artists in visual arts andtextiles
• Boxing Club: An agency that organises and facilitates workshops and events in such varied fields as computing,film and video making, journalism, education, curating and public history, with a strong educational ethos.

limehouse town hall antenna, taken by Armin Medosh during a consume clinic

Limehouse Town Hall Living History Project

Since successfully applying for a Project Planning Heritage Lottery Grant, the Limehouse Town Hall Consortium Trust has appointed consultant, Nicholas Morgan who is overseeing the development of a Living History Project as part of our renovation plans for the Town Hall.

Board of Directors

• Diana England: Stitches in Time
• Saul Albert: Boxing Club / Twenteenth Century
• Sundjata Keita: Creative Week
• Dhiraj Mahey: Boxing Club / Primal Pictures