page_title: London Welsh Centre
section_title: Current building
hierarchical_section_title: London Welsh Centre / History / Current building
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the front of the London Welsh Centre from Gray's Inn Road
context_page_description: The London Welsh Centre is a community and arts centre on Gray's Inn Road, in the London Borough of Camden. The Centre is owned and run by the London Welsh Trust.
  The Centre is a base for three choirs: the London Welsh Chorale, the Gwalia Male Voice Choir and the London Welsh Male Voice Choir. The Centre also hosts Welsh language classes, concerts, drama productions, the Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition, the London Welsh School’s Eisteddfod y Plant, literary events, discussion programmes, and a variety of other events.
context_section_description: Sir Howell J. Williams later rebuilt the properties that fronted onto Gray's Inn Road and completed the main hall of the current London Welsh Centre. The new premises were formally handed over by Williams on 5 November 1937. The properties on Doughty Street and Mecklenburgh Square have since been sold off for residential use, but the premises fronting on to Gray's Inn Road remain in use as the modern day London Welsh Centre.
  The bar at the Centre was officially opened by Harry Secombe on Saint Patrick's Day (17 March) 1971.
  The building is in the Holborn conservation area.
caption: The London Welsh Centre
  on Gray's Inn Road
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