L1226 - Navvy Mission Cottage, Bulwell, Nottingham

L1226 - Navvy Mission Cottage, Bulwell, Nottingham
L1226 - Navvy Mission Cottage, Bulwell, Nottingham
L1226 - Navvy Mission Cottage, Bulwell, Nottingham
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Title
L1226 - Navvy Mission Cottage, Bulwell, Nottingham
Description
L1226 - Next door to the Navvy Mission Hut in Bulwell, Nottingham was this small white cottage - given over to use as a navvy lodging. The sign on the wall of the whitewashed cottage reads ' The Navvy Mission - Good Samaritan Home. One Night's Free Lodgings - Given Only To Navvies In Tramp'. It is then undersigned by David Smith - Missionary. A man stands outside the cottage door who may well be David Smith. A woman is captured in motion on the left of the picture, just about to pass a hole on the cottage's boundary wall. The actual Mission Hut can be seen on the right.



British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection






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S.W.A. Newton
LCC ID. No.
L1226.tif
Image Use
Personal use only unless otherwise agreed
Notes
IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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