Above right: Shooting Lodge, Morden. One of the most attractive features of corrugated iron buildings is that they can be taken down,
moved and re-erected. This one started life across the road as a shooting lodge. It is now occupied as a small house.
Recently it was re-roofed, and the old iron used again to make a new home for the goat! 

Photographs and text by
Lizzie Induni

Right: Adeline Dance Hall, Boscombe. It started life in 1880 as the chapel St George in the Wood. It was built at a time when Boscombe had a rapidly expanding population, and needed new buildings very quickly. Corrugated iron buildings fitted this need and could be bought 'ready to use' as a kit of parts through catalogues. Many different styles could be obtained - village halls , churches, bungalows, railway stations etc. They were the original pre-fabricated buildings. They were easily transportable many of them being exported to the colonies, where they are now greatly revered.

St George in the Wood became too small for the expanding population of Boscombe and a second church was bought from Notting Hill and tacked on to the first. The building has since been used as a Masonic Lodge and lastly converted to a dance hall. The shabby exterior belies its very glitzy interior. This interesting building is under threat of demolition. A planning application has been put forward to build flats on the site.

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