-
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...
- 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...
-
British Trade Unions, vol.3, p.124 "
Navvies' and
General Labourers' Union".
Barry Herald. 16
October 1896. "The
Navvies' Union:
Barry its headquarters"....
-
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...
-
greatest railroad contractor,"
industrialist Hugh Ryan. Many
thousands of
navvies worked on the railway. Many were
European immigrants. An
unknown number...
- 1995). "Phantom
Trains Wreak Havoc in
Channel Tunnel". The Times. UK. "
Navvies". ingenious. 11
March 2008.
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original on 27 July 2009...
