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Ship of Fools: Norwich Evangelical Free Church, Norwich, England

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited March 2019 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: Norwich Evangelical Free Church, Norwich, England

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  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Thank you for posting such a generous and moving review.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Yes indeed. 'Railway Missions' were very much a 19thC phenomenon, as railways spread.

    The 'Tin Tabernacle Mission of My Yoof' was established opposite our local locomotive shed, and ministered very much to the families in the immediate vicinity, many of whom were employed (or housed) by the South Eastern Railway, and its successors.

    As the railways declined, and as local people were re-housed elsewhere, so the Mission declined - but, despite all odds, it survives today in a modern replacement chapel, as a sort of appendage to the local charismatic-evo parish church!
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    The Railway Mission still exists, although more as a Chaplaincy to those involved in the rail industry: http://www.railwaymission.org/about-us/
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Interesting.

    The Tin Tabernacle I referred to above was not part of the Railway Mission as such, but an Anglican 'Proprietary Chapel', founded by a Pious Lady to serve a poor neighbourhood, many of whose denizens worked on the railway (the original South Eastern!).
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    What a wonderful review. And thank you BF and BT for the railway mission information

    I was left with one question, if the Mystery Worshipper is around... What form did the head coverings worn by some women take? Pieces of cloth? Hats? Is that common in Evangelical Free Churches (within England, or without)? Thanks.
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