| 21. | The area around this airshaft was used a temporary camp for navvies building the tunnel.
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| 22. | Irish folk symbols carved on the stonework indicate that it was built by Irish navvies.
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| 23. | While this ratio varied from navvy shanty town to shanty town, sleeping arrangements were segregated.
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| 24. | The large numbers of navvies recruited to build the railways brought security problems for rail companies.
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| 25. | In November 1874 a number of skirmishes were fought between the native villagers and Irish navvies.
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| 26. | In addition to these unhygienic living conditions, navvies shared housing, some even sleeping on floors.
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| 27. | He left V�rg�rda at age 19, in 1873, for Motala to work as a navvy.
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| 28. | Between Glaisdale and Lealholm, work was begun by the railway engineer navvies used in its construction.
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| 29. | He would at times undertake contracts of little benefit to himself to provide work for his navvies.
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| 30. | The Taff Trail and the Navvies Line paths link Cefn Coed-y-Cymmer to Brecon.
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