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.

 

[Vivienne14]

There was a tin tabernacle on Rookery Road Handsworth before the Methodist Church at 321 Rookery Road was built. I'm not sure if the tabernacle is the building alongside, to the right, shown in this c1920s photo or if this was a later schoolroom, but that smaller building is no longer there today.

 

[superdad3]

HOPE FAMILY CHURCH

I don't think this has been posted before. On Yardley Wood Road on the other side of the road from the fire station and set well back. Not sure if it fits the criteria but has been there for a long time. Easily missed.

 

[pjmburns]

I wondered about that. I pass it quite often and it is well maintained.