Tate Institute

The Tate Institute was a community facility established by Henry Tate in Silvertown in 1887.[1]

The abandoned Tate Institute building in 2007

The building was established to create an apolitical and non-sectarian environment.[2] The Institute closed in 1933 and the building was used as a local library until 1961.

The institute was boarded up in 2011, but in April 2016 a group of artists took over the building establishing the "Craftory", to rehabilitate the building and create the “Silvertown ArtSpace” to provide a hub for a broad range of artistic and community activities.[1]

  • Craftory workshop looking north
  • Craftory workshop looking south


References
  1. Hedges-Stocks, Zoah (2016). "Abandoned club saved by artists who dream it can be 'Tate East'". Newham Recorder (21 September 2016). Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  2. Chalmin, Philippe (1990). The Making of a Sugar Giant: Tate and Lyle, 1859-1989. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9783718604340. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

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