Report - St Joseph's Missionary College, London - August 2013

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Visited with Seffy and End-Proc.

After having no sleep after the LDN meet, we grabbed some all you can eat breakfast and several cups of tea before squeezing in an explore of this place before we headed Bristol bound. Non of had been here before and we never ventured around the front of it which I now regret!

History:

As you approach Mill Hill heading North from London on the A1/A41, the sight of St Josephs College on Lawrence Street looms into view. The gold leafed Statue of St Joseph on the top is a well known and loved landmark. Sadly the college is currently an empty shell, home to pigeons and other nesting birds. The Mill Hill Missionaries moved out in June 2008 and the only vestage of their presence is a residual right to visit the graves of buried priests at the site. The college was first opened in 1871 as a seminary for Priests training to go on missions to far flung places. Interestingly only one Priest who originated from Mill Hill was ever ordained into the Mill Hill order.

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