My father's family lived in Rotherhithe for many generations as lightermen and watermen, from the 1600s to 1860, after my grandfather was born, when they finally moved across the river to Wapping, and then to Shadwell, Ratcliff and Limehouse and up through the East End to Mile End and finally Bow, where my Dad was born in 1899. While living in Rotherhithe, the men who dug this tunnel would have been their friends and neighbours, and they would have watched in wonder as this work proceeded, and no doubt would have worrried about how it would affect their life on the river.
It's a fallacy that Navvies were predominantly Irishmen. They weren't. The majority of Navvy workmen were indigenous Englishmen, Welshmen, and Scotsmen.
I'm not from the UK and new nothing of this but it's a Powerful thing to comprehend . I love UK history and just subscribe to this channel. Thanks for the video.
Britain's infrastructure was built on free manpower, slavery - espec. the railways; investments came from rich men who owned cotton and sugar plantations in the new world. And today? It's not the bones of millions of black slaves that paid the price - its the bones of millions of aborted babies -- that's the invisible evil what the feminist movement fostered 20/21st C; the 'free' modern suffragette, striving for equality at every level must have her ambitions fulfilled - unwanted babies get in the way of the ambitious uni student, or Boardroom Momma. Britain's prosperity continues to be made by using & casting aside the weakest and most vulnerable in the throwaway society, babies seen as garbage, as is the nappy . The state saves money, less schools, child welfare, and the unshackled working single/married woman produces greater taxes and govt wealth. * Just as the black person/slave [yes Irish navvy also] was seen as inferior and expendable in the 19thC - so today is the unborn child, the thumb sucking baby is seen as inferior and expendable, $: greed is the unquenchable idol. Equality for all persons, made in God's image? It's a joke Evil practice is cyclic; nothing is new under the sun * with an aging population, abortions [& the trend of ever smaller white families] may well bring down the UK. Islamic families have v large families. The writing is on the wall.
Imagine what would happen if someone was not there to carry someone out on time. Because the person who was supposed to be doing that sort of thing since he was big enough when at work in another part time job in a "group home" instead of a "rooming house" or a "boarding house" or a "public house" in Australia instead was by surprise assaulted when trying to stop someone turining that group home into a common bawdy house instead. While not being able to find and full time job with benefits now today at age 18.
The design for the shield was inspired by Marc Brunel's observation of the shipworm “teredo navalis”, which excretes digested wood to line the walls of its self-made tunnel. I made a pilgrimage to this famous tunnel when I lived in London. A lot of men died after ingesting the filthy water. It is amazing that this first sub-aqueous tunnel is still used today as part of the London tube.
She says that she couldn’t achieve anything as women were in those days about the woman in petticoats, but not a word about the people digging, why no women digging there ? Not a thought?
Those men's real trade name was Navigators for they navigated their ways forward to make tunnels and channels to make life much easier for us all, Thank you Irish Navigators
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I know this is not the reaction you expect, but I am in tears thin king of the invisible work that props up modern life and the lives of human beings who lose their lives for it. God bless and keep you. And thanks
Good on you for having tears in your eyes for you feel and understand the hard, difficult and very dangerous works those navigators how to endure just to make a living
The "navvies" did far more than this. They also dug the extensive canals that were built to transport the raw materials to the mills and factories of the Industrial Revolution, and the finished products from there to the big cities for export around the world. They literally provided the means to build the British Empire. Today, this canal network extends through the UK for 3,000 kilometres, and it was all dug BY HAND by the navvies from 1760 onwards, using nothing but shovels and wheelbarrows. It remains today, and is truly one of the wonders of the modern world.
I'm currently reading a very old book on the life and achievements of Isambard Brunel. It covers the building of the Thames Tunnel & Marc Brunel at the beginning of the book. I thought I would check out if there were any videos on RU-vid on the subject. Pleasantly surprised!
