Calvert Navvy Mission Sunday School outing in Buckinghamshire
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.
Digital Reference: L1245
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - circa 1897
Contributor: Leicestershire County Council
Type: , 161mm
Format: 118mm, 161mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (part of S. W. A. Newton Collection, copy of glass plate negative)
Identifier: Newton - C 3/22
