-
Navvy, a
clipping of
navigator (UK) or
navigational engineer (US), is
particularly applied to
describe the
manual labourers working on
major civil engineering...
- 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...
- 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...
-
navvies, co-founded the
Navvy Mission Society in 1877,
along with the Rev.
Lewis Moule Evans. This
missionary effort was
funded by Garnett's "
navvy novels"...
- 1
November 2020. "Christmas Special". BBC.
Retrieved 1
November 2020. "
NAVVY REVEALS VIDEO FOR 'PIECES' PLUS A KITO REMIX".
Around the Sound. 26 June...
- The
United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams,
commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's
primary special operations force and a component...
-
Brown in the
Manchester version. The
picture depicts a
group of so-called "
navvies"
digging up the road to
build a tunnel. It is
typically ****umed that this...
- 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...
- 400
Catholics were emplo****).: 280
Tolerated in
periods of
expansion as
navvies and
casual labourers,: 87–88 they
concentrated in a
small enclave, the...
