L1588 - Barley Fields navvy camp, Finmere, Buckinghamshire

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10625

Title

Description

L1588 - 'Barley Fields Navvy hut settlements', Finmere, Buckinghamshire (S.W.A. Newton's notes). Built by the contractors, the accommodation that navvies enjoyed during the construction of the London Extension was simple and functional, but it was a huge improvement on the primitive dwellings they had inhabited throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. Navvies living in these huts would probably have worked for Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne, the contractor responsible for building this section of the Line (Contract No.6, Brackley to Quainton Road).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1588.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L1588 - 'Barley Fields Navvy hut settlements', Finmere, Buckinghamshire (S.W.A. Newton's notes). Built by the contractors, the accommodation that navvies enjoyed during the construction of the London Extension was simple and functional, but it was a huge improvement on the primitive dwellings they had inhabited throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. Navvies living in these huts would probably have worked for Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne, the contractor responsible for building this section of the Line (Contract No.6, Brackley to Quainton Road).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found here

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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4284.jpg

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JPEG