Navvy, short for navigator, was the name for the manual labourers who built all Britains canals and railways from the 18th to 19th centuries. These routes were known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever.

Navvies built Britain. Let's find out more:

They were all Englishmen, apart from a period when up to 30% were Irish.

The Irish left for America when that country began it's own industrial revolution, attracted by better wages (and to get away from the bloody English).

English navvies built Britain.

What did they eat?

There was no harder job. They were each expected to shift twenty tons of rock and earth by hand every day.

This required enormous amounts of calories.

Breakfast: 6 slices bacon, 2 pints beer, 1 can condensed milk, tea, loaf of bread.

Early elevenses: 1 pint beer

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Late elevenses: 1 pint beer, bread and butter

Lunch: steak, load of bread, 2 pints beer, tea

Late lunch: 1 pint beer

Snack: 1 pint beer, bread and butter

Dinner: steak, potatoes, loaf of bread, 2 pints beer, tea

They lived on site for months and years at a time, walking from site to site as work progressed.

They dug our canals, they dug our railway tunnels, living beside the excavations in shanty towns.

At their peak there 250,000 at one time.

These were hard working, hard living men and they drank and smoked and fought.

They had wives and children with them. The women lived lives as hard as the men and their children grew up in these conditions, learning the profession.

The English (and some Irish) built Britain.

The state is now spitting on the memory of these men and women to gaslight us to facilitate our ethnic replacement in the 21st century.

We owe it to our ancestors not only to remember them but to reverse the demographic trend.