St James as was and as isn't

Two views of St James', Cross Roads which I hadn't seen before I was lent the brochure for its Golden Jubilee (which was held in the year I was born).

The top picture is the north side of the iron mission church erected in 1887 and demolished twenty-two years later.

The bottom picture is the the south side of the present church almost exactly as it would have been built in 1910 if the  proposed tower had been erected.

The brochure says that they did not want the church to open in debt so the organ and the tower were not there when the church was consecrated - the First World War then throwing planning and finances askew so that the organ was installed (in 1916) but the tower never begun.