Welcome to this weeks video in which we take a look at the life of the Navvy. We also enjoy a little stroll along the abandoned stretch of the Basingstoke Canal up to the Greywell Tunnel.

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A. I did kind of just delve into this without explaining the role and what a Navvy is. A Navvy is short for Navigator, and was the name given to a Labourer whose job it was to essentially build the canals and railways.



Credits:

Filter: Snowman Digital and Beachfront B-Roll
Maps: Google Maps
Maps: National Library of Scotland
Lidar: National Library of Scotland
Maps: OS Maps. Media License.
Stock Footage: Storyblocks
Music: Storyblocks
Iron Giant Footage:    / ericthehiking  
TREVITHICK Puffing Devil: Footage: (cc):    / @cornishpastyman  


Pictures credit: (Wiki creative commons unless specified).

Bridgewater Canal at Worsley: Parrot of Doom
Lancaster Canal:
Bridgewater Barrow Bridge: Mike Todd
Bridgewater Bridge: Craid Sunter
Berwick Tunnel Shrewsbury: Mark Evison
Blisworth Tunnel southern portal: Stephen Dawson
Butterley Reservoir Adit: Tina Cordon
Staff and Worcs Smestow Brook: SJWELLS53
Aldersley Junction and Wolverhampton: Oosoom
Staffs Worcester Bridge 105: Roger Kidd
Mine Explosion: Agence de photographie
Sapperton canal tunnel Southern Portal: Baryonic Being
Canal Diagrams at Sapperton: Cotswoldcanals.net
Sapperton Portal at Daneway: Jongleur100
Senghenydd pit disaster: W Benton
Bridgewater Wharf: Philip Pankhurst

Sources:

Historian: David Denny
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories...
https://www.weekehistory.co.uk/weeke/...
https://shrewsburyrailwaymodellers.co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy
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