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Four children posing with their dog at Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire | |
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| L1577. Four children and their dog, photographed outside a hut at Newton Purcell Camp, Oxfordshire, circa 1897. Navvy accommodation had improved tremendously by the time the London Extension was built. Unlike the primitive dwellings inhabited by navvies during the mid-nineteenth century, workers in the 1890s lived with their families in hutted camps erected by the contractors. | |
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| Contributor | Leicestershire County Council |
| Creator | personalname - Newton, S. W. A. |
| Date | creation - circa 1897 |
| Type | Photographic prints - black and white Photographs - |
| Format | dimension.H - 118mm dimension.W - 161mm |
| Identifier | Newton - J 3/13 |
| 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 - Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire (O.S. Ref: 462000 230000) Location.Current Repository - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland period - circa 1897 |
| Rights | Leicestershire County Council |
