109:— and was also home of St Pancras Amateur Boxing Club (SPABC). In the mid 1980s, most of the first floor was taken over and run by Camden Workers Social Club. SPABC moved into alternative premises in 1984 and the youth club closed in 1989. By early 2000, Camden Council had decided to close and sell the premises. The building was finally sold in 2005 and demolished a year later, with anger being expressed by some residents about loss of facilities and a mural inside the building. A block of flats now stands on the site, and the 1911 memorial stone has been incorporated into the foundations and can be seen at street level in Warden Road. Hampstead's Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, founder and original owner of the Kentish Town mission hall, closed in the 1970s and is now a recording facility for
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