Continuing a journey through London on the 43 bus route - with a Christian eye. The whole series is viewable on the '43 bus route' tag below.
The 43 heads out of the centre of Islington down City Road towards the City of London. City Road is probably most famous for Moorfield's Eye Hospital, one of the world's major centres for eye surgery. These days the road is populated with many contemporary high-rise glass buildings, but at its end comes this building.
Looking the part as a rival to Harrods it is an eye-turning place despite being near central London's many grand exteriors. It was The Leysian Mission.
The Leys School in Cambridge was a Methodist School designed to prepare non-Anglicans to enter degree study at Cambridge University - something only made possible in the 1870s. Graduates of this elite school set about the improvement of the wretched social needs of London's East End. Originally deep in the East End, this was the second, grander property, at the very edge of the East End but wielding a wide influence.
The story is even better than the building, but perhaps inevitably it is today apartments.
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