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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8032/1/3/23 |
| Title | Clive Leivers's research file relating to the lives of navvies: High Peak, 1861 |
| Date | early 21st cent |
| Description | Photocopies of printed sources relating to navvies in the High Peak, including:
Photograph captioned "A group of navvies standing by the No 5 shaft of Dove Holes Tunnel, on the Midland Railway's Peak Forest line. A spoil heap from another excavation shaft"
Extract from Buxton Advertiser Oct 1860
p309 of "Tunnel Making" by F S Williams, from The Midland Railway (London: 1896) |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Clive Leivers, local historian |