L2446 - Navvy settlement near Swithland, Leicestershire

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7627

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L2446 - A family pose for Newton's camera outside their hut at a navvy settlement near Swithland, circa 1897. By today's standards this accommodation is certainly primitive, but these dwellings were a significant improvement on the poor conditions which the navvies had endured for much of the nineteenth century, and at last the navvy could live with his family in relative comfort.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L2446.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L2446 - A family pose for Newton's camera outside their hut at a navvy settlement near Swithland, circa 1897. By today's standards this accommodation is certainly primitive, but these dwellings were a significant improvement on the poor conditions which the navvies had endured for much of the nineteenth century, and at last the navvy could live with his family in relative comfort.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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