Inside Kilburn’s famous Tin Tabernacle

On a Kilburn side street is a large corrugated iron church-like shed that’s looking rather sorry for itself – this is the famous Kilburn Tin Tabernacle.
Built in 1863, it  was meant to be a temporary church with a requirement that it would be replaced with a conventional stone church within 5-years. Obviously, this never happened, and the church building is still standing today — although it’s now officially the Training Ship Bicester, and is used by the local Sea Ca