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Navvy mission room at Rugby | |
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| L3034. This wooden hut on Sun Street, Rugby, was erected by the Navvy Mission Society for the men at work on the Last Main Line. Formed in 1877 out of concern for the navvies' moral and spiritual well-being, the Society and its lay preachers used premises such as these to improve the navvies' understanding of the Bible, and to lead them away from a culture of excessive drinking and immoral behaviour. As in this case, the rooms were invariably simple and inside the decoration was sparse, but it was the 'message' preached within that received the highest priority. | |
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| Contributor | Leicestershire County Council |
| Creator | personalname - S. W. A Newton |
| Date | creation - circa 1897 |
| Type | Photographs - black and white |
| Format | dimension.H - 162mm dimension.W - 216mm |
| Identifier | Newton - 34/3 |
| Source | S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland |
| Language | EN |
| Relation | copy of - glass plate negative part of - S. W. A. Newton Collection |
| Coverage | Location.Current Repository - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Location.Creation Site - Rugby, Warwickshire (O.S. Ref: 451500 275400) period - circa 1897 |
| Rights | Leicestershire County Council |
