L2832 - Interior of a navvy hut at Calvert

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7934

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L2832 - As this photograph testifies, navvy accommodation had seen radical changes during the Victorian era. Instead of the squalid, communal 'shanties' that had been endured for much of the nineteenth century, the navvies at work on the London Extension were housed in hutted camps erected by the contractors. That said, this particular example of a hut near Calvert, complete with chaise longue, carpet and a fine chest of drawers, would not have been home to an ordinary navvy, but rather a high ranking member of the construction team.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L2832.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L2832 - As this photograph testifies, navvy accommodation had seen radical changes during the Victorian era. Instead of the squalid, communal 'shanties' that had been endured for much of the nineteenth century, the navvies at work on the London Extension were housed in hutted camps erected by the contractors. That said, this particular example of a hut near Calvert, complete with chaise longue, carpet and a fine chest of drawers, would not have been home to an ordinary navvy, but rather a high ranking member of the construction team.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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