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