navvy• Mrs Chambers must think she was feeding a navvy!• Mr Beavis was a navvy, and his sons worked at the Bermondsey shuntingyards of the railway.• When the farmchores ended each day, Seb would often make his way to the camp of the road-building navvies.• Even today's less hungrynavvies will surely object to this soon.• And hard labour ... the railway navviesremembered by a rockband.• Sorting the linen, the towels, the sheets, the red handkerchiefs, such as the navvies use.• The farmer had taken his Bible beneath his arm and visited the navvies earlier in the week.• The navvies and the bricklayers, masons and blacksmiths, would troop off to other masters.