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  • The most numerous of these was the ruston & dunbar steam navvy, produced by ruston & proctor of lincoln.
  • Navvyis at this stage that some suggest that all the navvies engaged in a pitched battle in the otherwise quiet town of havant.
  • Navvyo picturesque settle to carlisle railroad, a great feat of engineering, built by the irish navvies in the 19thc.
  • Navvyly, the official school log books of the temporary wooden school in the navvies village have not survived in a readable form.
  • Navvyust 1847 after heavily drinking, two railroad navvies decide to have a " punch up " in a field near bath.
  • Navvyitionally the prostitutes from those streets were kept busy by the clientele from the many navvies employed upon the tramway.
  • Navvyy navvies ' favorite job is getting very muddy and dirty clearing out the bottom of a lock chamber!
  • Navvyare not alone but most people seem to be down on the navvies road.
  • Navvy navvies were rare: 40 was a good age.

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