Quotes About Navvies

In the middle of the nineteenth century a railway line was made from London's Fenchurch Street to Southend and, when excavating at what is now South Benfleet (Beamfleot), the navvies discovered the charred remnants of burned ships among which were scattered human skeletons. Those remains were over nine hundred years old, and they were what was left of Haesten's army and fleet. I

On this system the main contractor was not the employer of the navvies. This then was the classical method which ensured expedition and profit, and kept the main contractor free from any direct responsibility for the navvies. Only a few