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6 years ago
"Mining" (underground digging holes) video.
One for the elf and safety ninjas to watch and take notes! :lol:
BBC How They Dug the Victoria Line
Sapper923
6 years ago
Great that this piece of film is still out there. Superb that it captures the construction practices of the day, but a real inside look at how normal people earned a crust.
Peter Burgess
6 years ago
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/last-of-the-navvies-irishman-who-dug-all-night-tube-line-1.2762215 

Article that mentions miners getting the bends and a few fatal accidents. Progress is such that if that happened today it would be all over the national news.

It's a safer world for workers now. I am grateful for that.

Morlock
6 years ago
The sea tunnel/caisson workers at Aberthaw Power Station had the 'twitches' from (previous?) long term working in compressed air.

Edit: Although we had walked the coastal path many times it was 2016 before we found out what the rusty smudge was in our images!:offtopic:

https://penarthramblers.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/the-caisson-aberthaw-cement-works.jpg 
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