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10705
Title
L3453 - Paddy Mail transporting navvies to work
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L3453 - This photograph shows a navvy train, or 'paddy mail' ferrying a group of men to work on the railways. This open topped structure was towed along tracks by a contractors' locomotive. The man second from left is smoking tobacco from a clay pipe which was known as a gum bucket. Smoking was an activity partaken in by all sections of the navvying community, be they men, women, girls or boys.
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
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S.W.A. Newton
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L3453.tif
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Personal use only unless otherwise agreed
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IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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L3453 - This photograph shows a navvy train, or 'paddy mail' ferrying a group of men to work on the railways. This open topped structure was towed along tracks by a contractors' locomotive. The man second from left is smoking tobacco from a clay pipe which was known as a gum bucket. Smoking was an activity partaken in by all sections of the navvying community, be they men, women, girls or boys.
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
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Working Life
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8910.jpg
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2.46 MB
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Width
4670 px
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3619 px
Uploaded on
2013-06-05 13:21:12
Date taken
01/01/1897