MUSEUM IN THE STREET

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The Sound Agents are raising funds to remember Gladys Aylward, a missionary who often visited 20 Nelson Street, Chinatown, Liverpool, now the Guangdong Social Club previously Chilli Chilli restaurant. 

20 Nelson was formerly a Mission. Gladys remarkable story of her journey to China despite obstacles in life she went on to save over a hundred orphans from a Japanese invasion, was captured in a book entitled: The Small Woman written by Alan Burgess

In 1958 the book was made into a film by 20th Century Fox, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat and a couple of hundred Liverpool Chinese children! The set of China was built in Beddgelert North Wales and the children went to stay in hostels with chaperones. 

Chinese Ambassador Dr Wellington Koo opening the Chinese
Republican Progress Club 1941

20 Nelson Street was also the home of the Chinese Republican Progress Club. The Chinese Ambassador Dr Wellington Koo visited on the day it was opened 29th December 1941.

Dr Wellington Koo

20 Nelson Street was previously a Scandinavian Sailors Home.