Leyton Great Hall

Leyton Great Hall is the jewel inside the crown of the Legacy Business Centre in Leyton, E10; a Grade II listed building, fully restored. Leyton Great Hall is arguably one of the best venues in east London and stands as a testomony to the glamour of the era of Art Nouveau. Until the mid 19^th century, Leyton became a rural parish in south-west Essex, but the expansion of London and commercial revolution transformed it right into a London suburb. Before the First World War, the present day Great Hall especially which become the former Leyton Town Hall turned into used for showings of the early silent shifting pix and apparently seated an audience of about 300 humans.

The Leyton Town Hall was opened by using Mr James Gallaher, Chairman of the Board in August 1894 and the building became opened in 1896. It turned into designed in a rich Victorian eclectic classical manner, and built the usage of a combination of purple brick and Portland stone. The principal frame of the vintage Town Hall is surmounted by means of a decorative timber and lead fleche, which nevertheless dominates the neighborhood skyline. The professional commencing of the constructing changed into on the 18th March 1896 through the Duke and Duchess of York at a grand civic ceremony presided over by way of Councillor Edward Bare LP Chairman of the Leyton Urban District Council.