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