10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAVVIES»
Discover the use of
navvies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
navvies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life and Work Among the
Navvies
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
Daniel William Barrett, 2010
2
Our
Navvies; a Dozen Years Ago and To-Day
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
4
The Victorian Railway Worker
This illustration from 'Punch' has, in the past, been used as 'a contemporary
illustration of a navvy'. Indeed, it is such, but in rather special circumstances. Not
all railway navvies marched around with cutlasses! In 1854, during the Crimean
War, ...
5
History's Most Dangerous Jobs:
Navvies
There had never been a workforce like the navvies, a great army of men, moving about the country following the work as it became available. This book will tell of their extraordinary feats of strength and their often colourful lives.
6
Changing life in Scotland and Britain: 1830s-1930s
The navvies travelled to where the lines were being built and so were constantly
on the move. They took with them their own picks and shovels and hired
themselves out to the railway companies. Their work involved hacking at the
earth and ...
John Doogan, Edith Girvan, 2004
7
Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism
and experience than new navvies. Initially, this edge also enabled them to enjoy
much better pay.49 The majority of navvies on Turksib, however, were not horse
navvies but diggers. On the Northern Construction during the peak of the 1928 ...
8
Alberta Labour: A Heritage Untold
Coming from abroad. the United States or eastern Canada and employed by sub-
contractors hired by the CPR. the workers. or "navvies" as they were called. built
Lord Strath- cona a railway. It was punishing. tough. physical work. With picks ...
9
The Day the Trains Came: The Herefordshire Railways : the ...
a day; but the navvies sometimes contrive to get through sixteen sets, and there
are some men who will accomplish that astonishing quantity of work by three or
four o'clock in the afternoon - a result, I believe, which is not nearly equalled by ...
10
Before the Unions: Wage Earners and Collective Action in ...
However, they may have occurred even earlier since large numbers of navvies
are documented as early as the twelfth century: in 1167, a thousand navvies
were recorded near the Flemish town of Damme. In the early 1530s strikes are
known ...
Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen, Hugo Soly, 1994
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAVVIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
navvies is used in the context of the following news items.
Blaenavon World Heritage Site gets thousands in grant funding
The Mech Navvies steam train takes part in the 1960's themed weekend at the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway. (32482182). Jen Mills / -25343 seconds ago / ... «Free Press Series, Jul 15»
Toowoomba railway history marked by 'aberrations'
Navvies lived in 'temporary' camps of bark huts, sly-grog shops, stores and churches; hygiene was poor and typhoid was widespread. «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
Vintage gallery: The Railways
Its construction was attended by tragedy on 18th August 1873, shortly after six navvies started work on the night shift. A block of stone weighing ... «Cheddar Valley Gazette, Jul 15»
We want more tennis, less c---
I suggest they retaliate by wearing pink bum bags and swearing like navvies, or John Inverdale. No one will notice. Trying to watch all this is ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
50th anniversary of closure of the North Wales Penrhyn slate quarry …
The 2015 event holds the prospect of two steam navvies at work. In addition to the railway, Threlkeld is also home to the Vintage Excavator ... «Rail.co.uk, Jun 15»
Newcastle built train back in the region after more than 40 years for …
Mech. Navvies No 71515 was built at the Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn's workshops in Newcastle in 1944 and left Tyneside 30 years later. «ChronicleLive, Jun 15»
North East locomotive steams home
Navvies No. 71515 left Tyneside in 1974 and has never returned since. But this weekend (June 20-21) it will be back, almost within earshot of ... «ITV News, Jun 15»
Royal National Theatre's The Motherf***er With The Hat is f-word …
The fact that they all swear like navvies, in the same tone, denies us nuances of class that might sharpen the satire. Beefy Jackie (Ricardo ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
Veteran steam locomotive which stood where the Metrocentre was …
Navvies No. 71515 left Tyneside in 1974. But on June 20-21 it will be back, almost within earshot of its former home, for a special event at the ... «ChronicleLive, Jun 15»
Jenkins: Love endures on Ottawa's bridge of locks
When the canal was in construction two centuries ago, a gaggle of shanties was here, temporary homes of the navvies, the labourers, many of ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 15»
