Navvy Collection (page 2)

Track laying - using a bulldozer
A Caterpillar bulldozer being operated during track laying by the Wimpey construction company. Nightime engineering works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Laying railway tracks at night
A very atmospheric shot of a steam engine and cranes aiding the laying of a new set of railway tracks. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Steam navvy used to make the new dock at Swansea. By the late nineteenth century, chores traditionally done by workmen were being performed by steam engines

Rail Construction 1836
An extensive team of navvies build a retaining wall near Part Street, Camden Town, London

Digging a Rail Cutting
The construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Navvy (Petherick)
London characters : if the streets of London were paved with gold, the navigator ( NAVVY ) would find it, for he spends his life digging them up and filling them in again

Machines / Steam Navvy
STEAM NAVVY Excavation machine used in making a new dock in Swansea

Opening of the Thames Tunnel
A picture to commemorate the opening of the Thames Tunnel, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping, showing the company medallion featuring Sir Marc Isambard Brunel supported by one of the tunnels

Navvies working at Upminster Station, Havering
Navvies at work on the line at Upminster Station in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London, not far from the border with Essex

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