L1388 - Navvies and missionary at Calvert, Buckinghamshire

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9770

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Description

L1388 - Calvert navvy missionary standing with ten navvies, circa 1897. Although by the 1890s the navvy had lost some of his fearsome reputation, Victorian moralists still considered them to be drunken and unruly, and therefore ripe for conversion. The men's medals and rosettes are presumably a symbol of their religious devotion. Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne was the contractor who built this section of the Railway (Contract No.6, Brackley to Quainton Road).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1388.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L1388 - Calvert navvy missionary standing with ten navvies, circa 1897. Although by the 1890s the navvy had lost some of his fearsome reputation, Victorian moralists still considered them to be drunken and unruly, and therefore ripe for conversion. The men's medals and rosettes are presumably a symbol of their religious devotion. Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne was the contractor who built this section of the Railway (Contract No.6, Brackley to Quainton Road).

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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