About to start writing text of my book on #tintabernacles and similar wooden buildings. Finding an all-encompassing title is difficult, but summed up by this little pic from a manufacturer's catalogue. So how about 'Portable and temporary buildings in Britain, 1850s-1930s'? Comments welcome!
Finally from #Ruhr the machine room at Zollern colliery (the 'castle of labour') with art nouveau detailing & marble control board, between twin pitheads. Saw amazing buildings & structures in 2 weeks exploring the Ruhr, but overriding impression was vast scale of industry, ironworks etc everywhere
More #Ruhr - the model colliery at Zollern, 1902 by architect Paul Knobbe, who did several others in similar style (historical & art mouveau) for the same company. Avoided demolition in 1960s and was start of valuing Ruhr's industrial heritage. For pics of wonderful machine room see next...
More #Ruhr Germany's version of Anderton Boat Lift, the Henrichenburg Ship Lift near Waltrop. One huge tank originally moved c15m between 2 canals around 40 times a day. Opened 1899 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. On way back to Dortmund saw the massive 1926 hammerkopf winding gear of the Minister Stein pit.
First thing to do in #Dortmund was to head up the old Union Brewery to see the great U symbol on the former fermentation house (1927), now uber-cool arts centre. Free entry, good on the #U-tower
Another #Ruhr highlight was a ride on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated suspended railway, part of the local transport network running above the river and streets. Efficient, exciting! @mrtimdunn.bsky.social
Just back from an amazing trip round the #Ruhr #industrial area, so here's a few pics of the World Heritage site at #Zollverein near #Essen - hard to capture the sheer scale of buildings in photos. One of the mine owner's desks was in the Ruhr Museum collection - bad taste, plain appalling or both?
Like #butter sculpture? Of course you do! Recent talk on #Wembley 1924 Empire Exhibition for @c20society.bsky.social by @seasideferry.bsky.social showed one; & was a cricket version 1925(?). Now I've found my copy of wonderfully weird & very good book on subject by US art history prof pub 2012
Soon it will officially be spring, and #cycling weather, so here's a pic of the famous iron tea room at #Capheaton in #Northumberland, built 1921 as the Village Institute, now village hall. A splendid tea version of a #tintabernacle open weekends but do check first!
And now for something completely different... Found on the back of another pic, the rather suave Abbey Hotel, built c1938 on the Nth Circular Rd (nr Hanger Lane) in #London by brewers #BarclayPerkins. Architect Major Henry Oliver (?possibly the brewery house architect). Dem 1990s
This handsome #tintabernacle is now at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, but originally was built by Francis Morton & Co elsewhere in Morningside in 1876, then moved to its present site (in 1884) when a permanent church was put up. Still in use as an activity centre #Edinburgh
So good to see an old #tintabernacle in use again, now as a yoga centre. It is in #Selkirk and this was the Scottish Episcopal church hall (1920) by Speirs & Co - the octagonal window is their trademark touch
While listening to your excellent talk, your ref to butter sculptures reminded me I had a postcard of the later exhib cricket butter image (feel free to use) - meant to be the Sydney Cricket Ground, and does show some stands. Somewhere I have a book on Canadian butter sculpture - very strange.....
Just seen the recording, brilliant, really excellent talk, thanks. Those little Emberton pavilions are wonderful - I'd come across them when doing Co-op book as he did a shop for them, which was great but not quite as lovable as the toffee pavilion...
Nice photo. I wouldn't like to say they were never tin, as manufacturers tried all sorts, but mostly began with galvanised (or otherwise protected) iron then moved on to steel. Similar wooden churches also exist, and also get called tin tabernacles, a term used for iron churches from 1880s!
Thank you! William Cooper - I know quite a bit about him and the company but far from the whole story (quite a strange one...) and certainly not as much as you!
Here's the former St Saviour, Faversham. A listed 'tin tabernacle' built 1885 by Isaac Dixon & Co of Liverpool, one of the city's two major corrugated iron church building firms. After nearly 3 years of searching (online and in person) for them, I've found well over 200 survive in England alone!
