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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 6:22 pm
by digerjones
This is for Tony lowt or anyone else that does it, I don't.
Watched a program about the Caledonia canal. To get a navy job you had to hand dig 12 square yards a day.
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 6:01 pm
by lutonlagerlout
would that be 12 cubic yards dylan?
sheesh hard work in them days
think i read before you got a token for every barrow you tipped so it wasnt just digging it was moving it as well
2 skips a day
LLL 
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 7:41 pm
by digerjones
Yes Tony, sorry cubic. If they got a token every Barrow, they would have pockets full by the end of the shift
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:47 pm
by lutonlagerlout
got a feeling the barrows were a lot bigger in those days
navvies= navigators
my scottish family were originally from ireland so these is a good chance they came over to dig that canal :O
LLL