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Calvert Navvy Mission Sunday School outing in Buckinghamshire | |
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| L1245. This remarkable photograph shows the Calvert Navvy Mission Sunday School on an outing in Buckinghamshire, circa 1897. Even by the 1890s navvies were still considered by Victorian moralists to be ungodly, drunken and unruly. The Navvy Mission Society supplied premises and missionaries to provide religious instruction, and this photograph suggests that many Missions had a strong and popular following. The Calvert Mission would have served the navvy community working on Contract No. 6 (Brackley to Quainton Road) built by Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
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| Contributor | Leicestershire County Council |
| Creator | personalname - Newton, S. W. A. |
| Date | creation - circa 1897 |
| Type | Photographs - Photographic prints - black and white |
| Format | dimension.H - 118mm dimension.W - 161mm |
| Identifier | Newton - C 3/22 |
| Source | S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland |
| Language | EN |
| Relation | part of - S. W. A. Newton Collection copy of - glass plate negative |
| Coverage | Location.Creation Site - Calvert, Buckinghamshire Location.Current Repository - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland period - circa 1897 |
| Rights | Leicestershire County Council |
