The Railway Mission
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Railway Mission by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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The Railway Mission
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 15 May 2018
The Grade 2 listed red-brick building with stone dressing and a Welsh slates roof has the principal elevation on Prince of Wales Road and its rear elevation > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5774224 is on Rose Lane. It was built by Edward Boardman and Sons in 1901-1903. The Railway Mission was an evangelical organisation founded in 1881 to provide spiritual welfare and prayer meetings for railwaymen and their families who, due to their unsociable working hours, were often unable to attend regular church services, and by 1900 there were about 400 groups countrywide with a total of 7000 members. When the Norwich railway station (then known as Thorpe Station) at Thorpe Road opened in 1886 the Railway Mission had already been established there in order to provide services and meetings for the workers who built it. The building is currently owned by the Norwich Evangelical Free Church.
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Image Location
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