 In an area of enormous deprivation, the chapel became, under his inspired leadership, a beacon of hope for the dispossessed and downtrodden.The church's efforts to help improve the lives of the local population, already struggling before being hit by the Blitz, were seen as an integral part of its Christian mission.Being located in the heart of the industrial and commercial East End of London, Green and Hosking's magnificent chapel was destroyed in the bombing in 1944.