February 2, 2007
Architecture/History: Tin Tabernacles

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


