Navvies and a missionary on Braunstone Gate bridge, Leicester
A gang of navvies pose with a missionary on a steam powered crane, photographed during construction of the bowstring girder bridge that carried the Last Main Line across Braunstone Gate. Even by the late 1800s, navvies were still considered to be unruly, godless men who were seen by churchmen and Victorian moralists as ripe for conversion. To provide this guidance and instruction, missionaries served the navvy communities that accompanied the Line's construction. See on Route Map
Digital Reference: L2433
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - circa 1897
Contributor: Leicestershire County Council
Type: Black and white
Format: 119mm, 162mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (copy of glass plate negative, part of S. W. A. Newton Collection)
Identifier: Newton - Y 2/15
OS Reference: 458000 304100
