L2443 - Navvy mission hall - Image Leicestershire

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7643

Title

L2443 - Navvy mission hall

Description

L2443 - Although it is known that S.W.A. Newton photographed this navvy mission hall on 14.4.1903, its location remains unclear. As the Great Western & Great Central Joint Line was being constructed at that time, the hall was probably located at a village in Buckinghamshire. The reputation that navvies had for being lawless, unruly and even godless people may, by the early 1900s, have been largely false, but many churchmen and moralists still considered the navvy to be in need of guidance. To this end, the Navvy Mission Society provided buildings such as this corrugated metal hut for communities of navvies to receive religious instruction.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L2443.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative

Exhibitions with this image

L2443 - Although it is known that S.W.A. Newton photographed this navvy mission hall on 14.4.1903, its location remains unclear. As the Great Western & Great Central Joint Line was being constructed at that time, the hall was probably located at a village in Buckinghamshire. The reputation that navvies had for being lawless, unruly and even godless people may, by the early 1900s, have been largely false, but many churchmen and moralists still considered the navvy to be in need of guidance. To this end, the Navvy Mission Society provided buildings such as this corrugated metal hut for communities of navvies to receive religious instruction.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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