William Booth birthplace - 12 Notintone Place - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

A red plaque on the front of the William Booth Birthplace Museum, Sneinton, Nottingham.

The plaque reads:
Restored 1971
In this house
was born on 10th April 1829
WILLIAM BOOTH
Founder and General
of
The Salvation Army

The William Booth Birthplace Museum is open by appointment only, generally Tuesday-Thursday, 10am-4pm.

"William Booth was born in Nottingham on 10 April 1829 and had three sisters Ann, Emma and Mary and an elder brother, Henry, who died on his own second birthday. Writing about his father, William said: "My father was a Grab, a Get. He had been born into poverty. He determined to grow rich; and he did. He grew very rich, because he lived without God and simply worked for money; and when he lost it all, his heart broke with it, and he died miserably."

In 1865 William and his wife Catherine moved to London. It was here that William commenced his first open air evangelistic campaign in Whitechapel, preaching in a tent. This ministry led to the formation of The Christian Mission, with Booth as its leader.

In 1878 The Christian Mission was renamed The Salvation Army. ‘General Booth’, as he was now known, summed up the purpose of this body in the following way: "We are a salvation people - this is our speciality - getting saved and keeping saved, and then getting somebody else saved.” But there was to be frequent opposition to the Army’s methods and principles in its early years."

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