L1227 - Catesby Navvy Camp - Image Leicestershire

iBase ID

9500

Title

L1227 - Catesby Navvy Camp

Description

L1227 - Elevated view of what S. W. A. Newton describes as 'Hellidon Road huts', the navvy camp at Catesby in Northamptonshire. The long single-storey corrugated iron sheds would be divided into individual houses for the navvies and their families. Behind each dwelling is a lean-to structure that are probably out houses. Smoke issues from one of the chimneys on the hut. The settlement appears to be at the foot of the railway embankment which is separated from the dwellings by a wooden fence. Between the fence and the embankment runs a line of Contractor's track.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1227.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L1227 - Elevated view of what S. W. A. Newton describes as 'Hellidon Road huts', the navvy camp at Catesby in Northamptonshire. The long single-storey corrugated iron sheds would be divided into individual houses for the navvies and their families. Behind each dwelling is a lean-to structure that are probably out houses. Smoke issues from one of the chimneys on the hut. The settlement appears to be at the foot of the railway embankment which is separated from the dwellings by a wooden fence. Between the fence and the embankment runs a line of Contractor's track.

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

File metadata

File name

3442.jpg

File size

2.26 MB

File extension

JPEG