Author: Terry ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Railway Navvies
Author: Terry ColemanThe Railway Navvies
Author: Terry ColemanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784082317
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
The Railway Navvies
Author: Terry ColemanThe Railway Navvies
Author: Terry ColemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780090765607
Category : Railroad construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Railway Navvies
Author: Terry ColemanNavvyman
Author: Dick SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies
Author: Anthony BurtonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752481266
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways – not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. 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. They lived rough, usually having to make do with huts and shelters cobbled together from whatever materials were available. They worked hard and drank hard. Often exploited by their employers, they were always liable to erupt into riots that could have fatal results. The book will look at who these men were, where they came from – and destroy the myth that they were all Irish. It is a story full of drama, but above all one of great achievements.
The Railway Navvy
Author: David BrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An Irish Navvy – The Diary of an Exile
Author: Donall MacAmhlaighPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848899661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
DIrish construction workers in post-war Britain are celebrated in song and story. Donall MacAmhlaigh kept a diary as he worked the sites, danced in the Irish halls, drank in Irish pubs and lived the life of the roving Irish navvy. Work was hard, dirty and dangerous, followed by pints in the Admiral Rodney, the Shamrock, the Cattle Market Tavern and others. Living conditions were basic at best. This vivid picture of an Irish navvy's life in England in the 1950s mirrors that of an entire generation who left Ireland without education or hope. Days without food or work, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intense isolation and bitter reflection were all part of the experience. • Also available: Hard Road to Klondike.
Railways and the Victorian Imagination
Author: Michael J. FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079708
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain