tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post4413957473451767694..comments2024-03-20T23:43:28.613+00:00Comments on Caroline's Miscellany: Hackney's tin tabernacleCarolineLDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197813252586559665noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-48857307272374074972017-08-08T11:03:56.969+01:002017-08-08T11:03:56.969+01:00Caroline are you familiar with the book "Tin ...Caroline are you familiar with the book "Tin Tabernacles" by Ian Smith which covers corrugated iron churches and chapels in Britain. It has a good back ground history of corrugated iron buildings and excellent photographs of surviving buildings from around the country. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in this subject.<br /><br />Shire Press also have a book on "Corrugated Iron Buildings" by Nick Thomson.Stephen Barkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-76305788168502521962017-07-31T20:13:04.618+01:002017-07-31T20:13:04.618+01:00I remember the "Tin Chapel" from my chil...I remember the "Tin Chapel" from my childhood in Dalston in the 50s and 60s.It was close to the bus depot, oh how the area has changed. Happy days xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-18226851691529586292017-07-31T02:33:24.946+01:002017-07-31T02:33:24.946+01:00An interesting family, the Tuppers. Not just corru...An interesting family, the Tuppers. Not just corrugated iron chapels, but plastic food containers seen on the table of no less a person than Her Majesty the Queen, and the copious and chokingly dull poetical works of Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1880), written in a rambling metre of his own devising. Four lines is as much as most folk can stand:<br /><br />If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,<br />It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;<br />But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,<br />To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3287675141745937676.post-71895717264053227892017-07-31T02:14:10.409+01:002017-07-31T02:14:10.409+01:00I can understand that the Hackney chapel and other...I can understand that the Hackney chapel and other corrugated iron buildings were built that way because they were cheap, quickly built and were readily available to less affluent or established congregations. But they were boiling hot in summer, freezing cold in winter, very draughty and had poor acoustics.<br /><br />In Australia squillions of corrugated iron Nissen Huts were built, initially during WW1 but specifically from 1939 on. They were given to recent migrants as interim accommodation, and to a lesser extent as churches, POW camp buildings and bomb stores. Cheap and fast, but not popular!<br /><br />Nonetheless I agree that chapel should be protected with Grade II listing.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com