L2433 - Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester

L2433 - Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester
L2433 - Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester
L2433 - Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester
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L2433 - Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester
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L2433 - A gang of navvies pose with a missionary on a steam powered crane, photographed during construction of the bowstring girder bridge that carried the Last Main Line across Braunstone Gate. Even by the late 1800s, navvies were still considered to be unruly, godless men who were seen by churchmen and Victorian moralists as ripe for conversion. To provide this guidance and instruction, missionaries served the navvy communities that accompanied the Line's construction.



British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection






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S.W.A. Newton
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L2433.tif
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IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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