This Day in History: 1878-08-14
Death of Robert Bagshaw. Robert was a devout evangelist, he had ambitious plans for a Dovercourt New Town, in 1851 were only partially realised in the now grade II listed Orwell Terrace. Kingsway Hall is also grade II listed and is built in the Italian style, faced with Portland cement.
He acquired a site in Stour road known from 1903 as Kingsway and built the Dovercourt mission hall at a cost of £ 2,500, in the vestibule remains a memorial Stone to Robert Bagshaw’s mother and sister, who drowned in the river Hooghly in 1820.
He Became MP for Harwich and developed Victoria Street in 1864 and the evangelical church The Kingsway Hall was built by Robert Bagshaw in 1874.
