Temporary churches, prefabricated churches, tin tabernacles, iron churches, iron chapels

[Astoness]

As we've now found the Erdington PM chapel/tin tabernacle, another outstanding question is the road/location of the Handsworth one.

yes viv this is proving very difficult but it must have been somewhere

lyn

 

[Moor End Lad]

Changing the subject, there was a tin chapel called St Ethelreda's Mission Church in Moor End Lane, Erdington. It was opened just prior to the first world war, and, as a child, I vaguely remember it prior to demolition in the 1950s. The site remained vacant for many years until a modern house was built.

 

[Vivienne14]

Thank you. Here's a snippet about St Ethelreda's. Must have smelled lovely inside if the walls were lined with pine.


Source; British Newspaper Archive

 

[Vivienne14]

And this iron church was to be built on Kingsbury Road. In


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Richard Dye]

And this iron church was to be built on Kingsbury Road. In

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Source: British Newspaper Archive

Interesting historical piece. I would have thought Castle Bromwich would have been more that 11/2 miles from Tyburn although after second thought I am not really sure where they are measured from.

 

[Moor End Lad]

For 'Tyburn' I would read Tyburn House pub, so this church was probably built on Kingsbury Road not far from the Chester Road.

 

[pjbhandsworth]

We've had a couple of suggestions from our members but have discounted these. I wondered if it was a chapel shown at the corner of Louise Road/Victoria Road on the 1913 OS map, but the angle's wrong and the building facing it in the distance looks too far away. I forwarded it to Midland Ancestors and they could put it in their next issue (December) but asked if it was OK to publish and whether it's possible to have a higher resolution copy. I found a very similar building online but unfortunately it was in Alabama!

 

[pjmburns]

Thanks - we had that suggestion as well. We discounted that chapel in post 28. As you say orientation to road is wrong.
We did wonder if it was just a photo of one of the firm's chapels as it had their name on it. The word Handsworth just as a reference that they had built similar churches there.