L1785 - Navvy camp near Flecknoe, Warwickshire

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10874

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L1785 - Looking across a line of contractor's temporary railway towards a navvy camp near Flecknoe, Warwickshire, circa 1897. However bleak and simplistic these huts appear today, this accommodation built by the contractors was a huge improvement on the primitive and inadequate dwellings which the navvies had inhabited for much of the nineteenth century. Workers living here would have worked for T. Oliver & Son, the firm responsible for building this section of the Last Main Line (Contract No.4, Rugby to Woodford).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1785.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L1785 - Looking across a line of contractor's temporary railway towards a navvy camp near Flecknoe, Warwickshire, circa 1897. However bleak and simplistic these huts appear today, this accommodation built by the contractors was a huge improvement on the primitive and inadequate dwellings which the navvies had inhabited for much of the nineteenth century. Workers living here would have worked for T. Oliver & Son, the firm responsible for building this section of the Last Main Line (Contract No.4, Rugby to Woodford).

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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4402.jpg

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