My own interest has been in the rise and demise of the earliest prefabricated buildings – colloquially known as tin tabernacles. This enjoyable obsession has taken me to all corners of the country as well as several appearances on ...
To commemorate the thirty-fifth anniversary of Pentagram Design, the partners of this illustrious firm present a series of signature annual documents, from 1975 to the present, that explore a unique topic of interest to the Pentagram ...
Tin Tabernacles and Others
Charting the history of corrugated iron as a construction material from its earliest days in the 1830s through to the Second World War, this book explores the once thriving market for kit-built kirks, ready to assemble reading rooms and off ...
... Tydd St Mary, Tydd Gote, Walpole St Andrew and Walpole St Peter. Other names reflected where the village was situated, such as Sutton Bridge and Walpole Highway. Gote probably derives from the old word for sluice.
The poor and ill-educated mostly attended Methodist meetings, then during the nineteenth century Primitive Methodist or Baptist "tin tabernacles." Because the classes practised radically different forms of Christian piety and ethics, ...
The dismantling of the Tin Tabernacle on The Scores in October 1909. The Tin Tabernacle was an iron church erected 1884/85 to serve as a Roman Catholic Church, prior to St James Church being built (190910) on the same site overlooking ...
The despised tin tabernacles didn't appear to find Millbrook stony ground at all . There was always a good crowd on the balding grass outside the Pentecostal chapel on Sunday mornings , and many of the people there looked ...
The Independent Labour Party was incubated in tin tabernacles . It is no exaggeration to argue that the presentday Labour Party would not exist without the invention of corrugated iron . The genesis of the Labour Movement If the 1890s ...
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