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Our country and our #Empire were built by #bricklayers, #mechanics, #engineers, #navvies and every other conceivable #tradesmen. We still need these hard working people today to keep our #homes, #factories, #infrastructure, and #economy running.
GREAT UNIVERSITY CON EXPOSED
Too many students, too much debt, too few decent jobs
Need fewer students, higher quality degrees, more youngsters doing apprenticeships
Only @reformparty_uk will solve this taxpayer rip off https://t.co/foPspPWmgB
“These roads in UK were built by my ancestors!” Is he telling truth?
If you fancy an hour of
#SecretArmy
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#EddieMurphy
the #Coliseum
#navvies
#middens
#ComeBackLucy
#OnTheBuses
#TheLShapedRoom and defining the point when #BrianBlessed went mad, the 100th @NiceThingsShow is just what you’re looking for…
I'll talk about how the #Irish #diaspora shaped #Yorkshire & the region to #Wakefield & District Family History Society. Hope my clan would be proud!
#coalmining #mills #nursing #navvies #Irish #migrants #diaspora #Leeds #Wakefield #yorkshire #ancestryhour
Delighted to be invited to give a talk abt the iconic @LdsIrishCentre, as author of its 50th anniversay book this Sat to #Wakefield & District Family History Society.
#coalmining #mills #nursing #navvies #Irish #migrants #diaspora #Leeds #Wakefield #yorkshire #ancestryhour
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Today we announce #Navvies, a light installation and community garden by @MattRosier commemorating 17,000 labourers who dug the Manchester Ship Canal, will launch Thursday 1 Dec.
Commissioned by @mediale_uk @QuaysCulture @MediaCityUK#EverdayHeritage ⬇️
https://t.co/UK7v26YWMz
#Navvies were mostly known by their nicknames. Geordie was a Tyneside navvy, Shaky Joe, Nottingham Rags, Mountainpecker was a Welshman, Suffolk men were called Punch after the horses, Chump had 1 leg, Wingy had 1 arm, Tweedle Beak had a large hooked nose, Rainbow Ratty, Fatbuck..
How much do you know about the Yorkshire Dales #navvies? Read about them here https://t.co/VdEMBFDhND
Happy Birthday to Victorian engineering giant Isambard Kingdom Brunel born #OTD 9 April 1806. PUNCH cartoon by Linley Sambourne 1892: 'The Burial of the "Broad-Gauge"' #STEM #railways #Victorian #engineers #transportation #GreatWesternRailway #GWR #navvies
#OTD 1759 First #actofparliament passed for Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to build a 'cut or canal' from #Worsley to #Manchester
#History #canals #industrialrevolution #JamesBrindley #JohnGilbert #navvies #wheelbarrow
In the #MuseumAlphabet we’ve reached N for #Navigators (Navvies). Navvies were the men who built the canals. It was hard physical work! https://t.co/Hdxap5baVo #Navvies #Canal #NationalWaterwaysMuseum #WaterwaysArchive #ThrowbackThursday
6/15 Within months some who had taken on huts to rent were in difficulty. Grimsby proved too popular, and authorities worried about the strain on resources. The ‘Navvies’ who had been a source of entertainment as comedy acrobats were now vagrants loafers and drunks. #NTiHoR
Only two weeks to go!
Will the new #railway through #Tavistock save her & her #father from the #workhouse?
What happens when her #child is stolen?
#Devon #Dartmoor #Victorian #saga #suspense #kidnap #poverty #Irish #navvies
#Workington #Bridges - the replacements -
2 views of Workington New North Side Bridge
Workington Barker Crossing. Temporary Bridge
New #Navvies Foot Bridge
A short series of images of #Workington #Bridges - these taken in Jan 2010
#CalvaBridge - including fractured arch
#HarbourRailBridge - since removed
#NorthSideBridge - destroyed
#Navvies footbridge - destroyed
@CumberlandPics @TMaryporters
Tomorrow- the recovery & replacements
A short series of images of #Workington #Bridges - these taken in Jan 2010
#CalvaBridge - including fractured arch
#HarbourRailBridge - since removed
#NorthSideBridge - destroyed
#Navvies footbridge - destroyed
@CumberlandPics @TMaryporters
Tomorrow- the recovery & replacements
A poetical alternative take on the cause of the twist in Chesterfield's Crooked Spire. Shared with approval of the author Harry Simpson. #FolkloreThursday #Chesterfield #CrookedSpire #ChesterfieldCanal #Devil #Navvies
Wells residents👍for #navvies “Welcome,Sons of Toil” was 1 banner at 1858 reception @ypreswoman @philipwelch21 @EastSomersetRly @wellsmuseum
Paid a little visit to Settle today and I could resist a visit to @northernassist and @setcarrailway #settlestation. Open for just shy of 125 years. One beautiful station in a beautiful County
#midlandrailway #longdrag #settlecarlisle #navvies
“Navigator, navigator, rise up and be strong,
The morning is here and there’s work to be done”.
#CanalBoatDiaries #Navvies
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