| 11. | On 5 May 1900, a landslide filled the trench, killing three navvies.
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| 12. | By 2008 a single worker's cottage remained from the original navvy village.
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| 13. | Navvies found work on the South Wales Railway.
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| 14. | Two of the navvies were hanged in 1841 where they had committed the deed.
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| 15. | The majority of navvies were Englishmen, with 30 % of the group being Irish.
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| 16. | Due to limited safety protocols, navvies were frequently injured or killed on the job.
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| 17. | Navvies for the poms, they were.
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| 18. | The first ferry service was supplied by " Navvy Jack s " rowboat in 1866.
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| 19. | A collapse in the tunnel trapped two navvies one of whom died of suffocation.
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| 20. | Nor were there at that time any of the specially expert navvies on the works.
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