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The Salvation Army bus
The farm workers were bussed to the docks

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The Booth boys

It was in October 1890 that William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, published his book "In Darkest England and The Way Out" as part of his spiritual vision for the salvation of the world. He expressed, in colourful metaphoric language, what he thought as the essential social missions of the Salvation Army, and at the core of his schemes on “deliverance” were his three colonies. Through the workings of a unique farm in Essex, everything in his vision became achievable, and most of it came to fruition – it was only the lack of public funding that thwarted his works for his third colony, but all was not lost. More...

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