L1404 - Barley Fields Navvy Camp, Oxfordshire

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9692

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Description

L1404 - The railway builders, or 'Navvies' as they were known, featured regularly in S. W. A. Newton's photographs. Here at Barley Fields navvy settlement in Oxfordshire, we can see how they lived in purpose built, but temporary, wooden houses. The navvy settlements were communities in their own rights, often with dedicated garden plots or allotments as seen on the right. Several of the navvy occupants stand outside the houses by their gardens. In the foreground is a wooden outhouse, complete with no plumbing whatsoever.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found here

Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1404.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L1404 - The railway builders, or 'Navvies' as they were known, featured regularly in S. W. A. Newton's photographs. Here at Barley Fields navvy settlement in Oxfordshire, we can see how they lived in purpose built, but temporary, wooden houses. The navvy settlements were communities in their own rights, often with dedicated garden plots or allotments as seen on the right. Several of the navvy occupants stand outside the houses by their gardens. In the foreground is a wooden outhouse, complete with no plumbing whatsoever.

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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3524.jpg

File size

1.81 MB

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JPEG