L1578 - Quainton Road navvy camp, Buckinghamshire

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10665

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L1578 - Navvy camp settlement by the Quainton Road railway line, Buckinghamshire, circa 1897. These hutted camps that were built by the contractors were a very significant improvement on the crude and inadequate living quarters that navvies had inhabited during the mid-nineteenth century. Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne was the contractor who built this section of the Line (Contract No.6, Brackley to Quainton Road).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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S.W.A. Newton

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L1578.tif

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

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L1578 - Navvy camp settlement by the Quainton Road railway line, Buckinghamshire, circa 1897. These hutted camps that were built by the contractors were a very significant improvement on the crude and inadequate living quarters that navvies had inhabited during the mid-nineteenth century. Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne was the contractor who built 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

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Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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