L3472 - Navvy mission room - Image Leicestershire

iBase ID

10626

Title

L3472 - Navvy mission room

Description

L3472 - A young boy leans over his yard wall to peer at a group of Victorian ladies walking down this street in Hucknall. To the right of the photograph stands a typical wooden, purpose built Navvy Mission Room. Introduced at most of the villages and settlements along the London Extension, they provided services and Sunday Schools for navvies and their families. Many buildings like these white cottages were given over to use as navvy lodgings, representing a marked improvement in housing conditions since the period of railway mania in the mid-nineteenth century, during which navvies lived in invariably poor conditions.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L3472.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L3472 - A young boy leans over his yard wall to peer at a group of Victorian ladies walking down this street in Hucknall. To the right of the photograph stands a typical wooden, purpose built Navvy Mission Room. Introduced at most of the villages and settlements along the London Extension, they provided services and Sunday Schools for navvies and their families. Many buildings like these white cottages were given over to use as navvy lodgings, representing a marked improvement in housing conditions since the period of railway mania in the mid-nineteenth century, during which navvies lived in invariably poor conditions.

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

File metadata

File name

8874.jpg

File size

1.49 MB

File extension

JPEG