
Moving a church was not always the simple process manufacturers suggested it might be. Here at the former St Cuthbert’s in Sheffield, during 1934, the church hall is about to be taken away on the back of a lorry. It looks quite a complex process, not exactly the simple unbolting and unscrewing the original purchasers might have hoped for. And by the state of the remaining parts – less like a Meccano set than something meant for the tip – it probably wasn’t going to be reused. Doubtless the scrap metal was valuable…