-
fluorescent orange "Workers Ahead" signage,
navvies use pale blue "
Navvies at Work" signs. In
British Columbia, "
navvy jack" is a
common term in construction...
- from 1909, this
machine – Ruston's
called it a 'crane
navvy' – is the
oldest surviving steam navvy in the world. It was
originally used at a
chalk pit at...
- in 1877. The
mission grew,
supplying missionaries to the
navvies,
libraries for the
navvies' camps, soup kitchens, and
savings banks. The Rev.
Henry Scott...
- of the song) were
other major construction companies employing Irish '
navvies' (a
British term
referring to
building labourers and
originally coined...
-
British Trade Unions, vol.3, p.124 "
Navvies' and
General Labourers' Union".
Barry Herald. 16
October 1896. "The
Navvies' Union:
Barry its headquarters"....
-
mortar which is
being mixed by
other navvies at the
right of the composition. A hodcarrier,
visible behind the main
navvy, is
transporting bricks down into...
- Dance,
released in 1991. The song's
lyrics by Phil
Collins are
about the
Navvies:
railway workers of the 19th century, many of whom died
constructing Britain's...
- an
Irish journalist, poet and novelist,
known as "The
Navvy Poet"
because he had
worked as a
navvy before he
began writing.
MacGill was born in Glenties...
-
locomotives and a "steam
navvy",
following the
subterranean path of the tunnel. The
construction of the
tunnel brought a
small army of
navvies into the area. They...
- to his
military record escaped with a fine. In 1889, Ward
founded the
Navvies, Bricklayers'
Labourers and
General Labourers' Union, and
continued to...
