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RAILWAY EMPLOYMENT, WATERLOO ROAD, WATERLOO: WARTIME

RAILWAY EMPLOYMENT, WATERLOO ROAD, WATERLOO: WARTIME

Messrs. Petto, Brassey and Betts, Civil Engineering Contractors. A crowd of workmen waiting outside contractors' office to be selected for work building a railway across Crimea. The Crimean War had been declared against the Russians late in the summer of 1854 and a severe winter had worsened the situation for British troops stationed there.
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Ref:04216
Identifier:SP12/64/CON.1
Date:1855

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