Our home in Liverpool
A report in The War Cry on 10 May 1884 reveals that the Army was leasing a large and excellent hall from a Mrs Taylor, in a good central position. However, we are still unsure where this hall was. A Salvation Army hall was erected in Northumberland Street in 1888 (pictured right.) A new hall on the same site was opened in 1918. In February 1946 the hall was sold and for a period of time after this there is no address for The Salvation Army in Liverpool. In 1949, when Lieutenant Arthur Dixon was appointed to head the Army in Liverpool he found there was no hall or quarters to live in! He had to travel by train or bicycle on a daily basis from Ashfield, where he was staying, until he eventually arranged a place. At that time, meetings were held in a hall in Memorial Avenue, which had to be cleaned up every Sunday morning from the previous night’s dance! In 1951, a block of land was purchased on the corner of Bathurst Street and Memorial Avenue and a new hall opened in 1957. Early on a Sunday morning in September 2013, fire destroyed the current Liverpool Salvation Army, located on the corner of Moore and College Streets, gutting the hall but leaving the adjoining welfare office intact. The church still gathered together that Sunday morning, spending time together in prayer, says church member Joel Spicer. We stood united and strong as a church. What the enemy meant for harm, God is going to use for good. God is bigger than this. The building is not the church. We are the church. The Salvation Army Hall has since been rebuilt.
