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- fluorescent orange "Workers Ahead" signage, navvies use pale blue "Navvies at Work" signs. In British Columbia, "navvy jack" is a common term in construction...
- in 1877. The mission grew, supplying missionaries to the navvies, libraries for the navvies' camps, soup kitchens, and savings banks. The Rev. Henry Scott...
- 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...
- British Trade Unions, vol.3, p.124 "Navvies' and General Labourers' Union". Barry Herald. 16 October 1896. "The Navvies' Union: Barry its headquarters"....
- The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy's primary special operations force and...
- Warren Fahey (2014). "Navvies". Warren Fahey's Australian Folklore Unit. Retrieved 12 May 2022. Denis Rowe, 'The Robust Navvy: The Railway Construction...
- constructing the Manchester Ship Canal. Initially named the Manchester Ship Canal Navvies Union, Hall was elected as its first secretary, early in 1889, and its...
- of the song) were other major construction companies employing Irish 'navvies' (a British term referring to building labourers and originally coined...
- Quaintain, a widow with teenage children Hans Matheson as Johnny Jackson, a navvy, later discovered to be John Blackwood Clarke Peters as Ralph Coates, a...
- 1995). "Phantom Trains Wreak Havoc in Channel Tunnel". The Times. UK. "Navvies". ingenious. 11 March 2008. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009...