When Jews left the City and East End of London to live in the West End they needed a synagogue and started a branch of the Great Synagogue in 1855. From this came the Central Synagogue in Hallam Street in 1870. It was one of the founding houses of worship of the United Synagogue and destined to become one of the oldest synagogues in the country. Both the Central and the Great Synagogue were destroyed in the Blitz in 1941. The Great Synagogue was not...