On the first day of our East Anglia trip we visited Edmund Station the 88th on our list.

The photos show the main approach to the station followed by the dull underpass.

The weeds give the whole place a run-down appearance. Simon Jenkins comments on the symmetry of the station and the splendid tower.

Around the other side thins are less attractive with what appears to be an old good shed.

At the front was a “Tin Tabernacle”. I don’t know what it started as but it is now a Seventh Day Adventist meeting place and as it was Saturday there were people arriving when we first saw it.

It reminded me that the first followers of Christ were all Jews and so continued to meet in synagogues on the Sabbath, as Jesus did. But the 11 apostles also met on the First Day of the Week, when Jesus was raised from the dead. That seems to have then become their pattern and by Acts (chapter 20:7) and 1 Corinthians (20:18 ) the Lord’s people were meeting on the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, was their pattern.

The Adventists, like most others who have decided they know better than the early believers, claim to have received special revelation through a vision, and have other distinctives that mean that Christians generally regard them as a cult or heresy.

Visited 5th July 2025