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February 2, 2007

Architecture/History: Tin Tabernacles

Railway station

Largely unnoticed and ignored, corrugated iron buildings can be discovered scattered across Britain and the Empire. The initial proliferation of buildings constructed of corrugated iron was sparked off by an invention of 1828.

An archive of corrugated iron buildings (churches, houses, other buildings, oddities), photographed by Alasdair Ogilvie over the previous twenty five years.

Related: Pentagram Papers 35: Tin Tabernacles

Via Coudal Partners

Photo: Doniford Beach Halt, West Somerset Railway

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