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My father a Welshman demobbed from the army 1944 went into construction rebuilding London after the war. He worked rebuilding sewers, digging cable trenches etc. He rose to the rank of General Forman in a large civil engineering company that took on tunnel work for BR and the Underground. The photos show in the video were of the type of tunnels dug in stations to connect platforms, most of the face workers were Irish and dad had a little black book of phone numbers, pub names and maybe an address. So he could man up a section of work. I joined him as a 16 year old in 1960 and worked on a BR tunnel at Chalk Farm that needed to be enlarged for electric trains and as the video said just down the road at Camden Town would be the line of Green & Grey Murphy Ford tipper trucks Kennedy also had trucks lined up. There's a tune The Green, The Grey and the RSK, grey Murphy bought so many Fords he bought Cambridge Motors a Ford Main Dealer. 1962 came the construction of the Victoria Line and dads company won part of the Euston section and two sections from the Manor House to the end at Walthamstow. The Running Tunnels were dug using open faced clay diggers Tunnel Boring Machines and the tunnel lining was precast concrete segments to form the ring I drove one as part of a 5 man gang. The station platform tunnel were enlarged from the already constructed running tunnel. A large shield was erected with platforms within, these had hydraulic floors and face covering panels. The shield was propelled forward with hydraulic rams, the floors and face panels retracted at the same time. An 11 man gang would then excavate using air powered spades to bring down the muck, that was shoveled into chutes and whisked up conveyors to empty rail skips and taken to the surface. A ring of cast iron segments would be build inside a safety tail skin. Then the cycle would repeat three times per 12 hour shift to earn the miners a daily wage with production bonus. It was five 12 hr. day shifts and the next week 12 hr. night shifts for 3 months to build one platform tunnel. In those days I gave mum a share, had spends and bought a new Mini Cooper each month, not for myself but to sell on as there was a waiting list in those days and I found a way of putting my money to good use. The last tunnel I worked on was the KL Metro in Malaysia in 2015, after a career in tunneling around the world

Val Doonican was yer man !

Slave labour, there own country sold them down the drain

The men that built the world's constructs, Irish men. It was the Irish woman who built up the irish men.✌️☘️

Irishmen in Britain who most decidedly didn’t have their hands in their pockets.

Early 70s, Slough< > Reading stretch: railway ballast dropped from bellies of hoppers yellow chalked X every 60 ft. for shovelling level with sleepers.

I think the british built Britain.

Lived in Kilburn in the 70s back over in the 80s worked for Patsy Murphy Walls Brothers on a concrete gang drank in the Prince of Wales Willesden Lane met great people from all parts of Ireland forget the bitterness remember the good times god bless

My parents came over from Ireland as teenagers in the '50's and despite unbelievable hurdles,they brought up 6 kids as decent, loving, hard-working people who now have our own families here in England. We have them to thank for everything we have. I can never forgive the way the British government (and a lot of the British people) treated the Irish back then and continues to ignore the plight of elderly single Irish men who (due to lack of money) had no choice but to stay here, despite giving their working lives to building England/Britain. I have family in Ireland still and I feel we missed out on the sense of belonging and closeness that they have with their large extended families there.

I am from/living in Liverpool ... we in Liverpool have Irish connections, so we welcome the Irish. I have one observation to mention here ... The Irish came to Britain looking for work, as there was None in Ireland, many stayed here so they chose to live here and marry have kids and have the use of our N.H.S. benefit system and housing. As I said, I embrace The Irish yet the Question is This ... All the things they have here, they Did Not Have in Ireland and that makes you Question Ireland itself ???

They said the black build London after the war or so they’d like us to believe but for any doubters here’s your proof!

Those were brutally hard-working days, you may not get paid, some contractors would try to trick you hard earned money, and poor lodgings, you would be looked down by seme and be called a Paddy when often you may be far smarter than the person who was insulting you. Those were hard times and yet they were better than being unemployed in Ireland

Good Historic,

See you this Christmas again Pierce. Best present I’m going to get!

One of the greatest Irish compositions of the last generation. Fantastic Pierce. I’ve been listening to this song for thirty years and it never fails to captivate.

I lost my ol man to work in England. He came home twice a year , Easter and Christmas, until he stopped coming home. So I grew up quick and I grew up mean , 😂😂😂😂😂 but I wasn't called Sue. I went over in later years and patched things up, as best we could. Ah sure, that's life.

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DESENT BREED OF HUMAN BEING WHO HAD PRINCIPLES, HARD WORKING MEN AND LADYS. NOT LIKE MOST OF THE SHIT HEAD PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY.

October is officially Irish History Month 🍀🇮🇪

The Men Who Built Britain 🇮🇪🇬🇧❤️

My father and his brothers came over from Sligo in the late fifties ,and sixties ,yet nowhere is their a statue erected to thank the Irish for rebuilding the infrastructure of post war damaged Britain ,?????

I worked with lots of Irish men all over the country when they came to Wales they thought they were hard cocky full of stuff about how hard their lives were notice to Irish weve been through more shit your country has ever been through never heard the same when i worked in England i offered two paddies out on the same night not so hard both declined im Welsh ive no argument with anyone but if you come to any part of the UK doesnt matter where you come from you will get a fight paddies are nothing special believe me 😂

I'm London born n bred, in the late 80's. Mater and Pater were both from Mayo, but actually met in Manchester in the mid 70's. Both moved to London to find work. My aul fella and 2 of his brothers worked on the sites together for a good 15yrs. Jaysus, some of the stories my Mam tells me about them, back in the day. It'd finish off a Priest. 3 of my Mam's brothers came over, too. Worked on some good sites. Houses of Parliament, Ritz and Savoy hotels, to name a few. Worked like fuckin dogs. Got rakes of maternal/paternal family, as well as in-laws that worked themselves to the bone. No days off. No doleites. My aul fella had two fingers gone cos of work. Also had a deep tar burn/scar all up the inner/calf area of the right lef. An uncle lost an eye. My aunties husband sustained a head injury that essentially rewired his brain. Never the same after. Childlike in some ways. Another uncle, who died this past November developed serious lung problems due to absestos. I left LDN in 2018. Had to come back for family reasons, due to Covid and I'm sickened by the place. The country. What's it turned into. The people it walks on eggshells for, mollycoddles and gives false praise. We don't get a History Month. We were the first to be colonized. There's no rememberance for The Great Famine. All we get is a half hearted fuckin Paddy's Day. And it's fuckin dreadful. And now we've got the loud, aggressive, violent work shy eejits telling me about my 'privilege'. Get to fuck.

Worked there in the eighties and nineties on the green duct real tough work 3:30

The Irish lads did all the work in England

The extra counties of Ireland. Cricklewood, Kilburn, Willesden, Camden/Kentish Town

Onda Pierce me boy!

No statues for the Irish in London.. The real people that built Britain back up.. No nonsense or lies, just facts..

I still don't mind a pint though...

My dad came over in the fifties and my mam's side came over to build the Manchester Ship Canal. It was bloody bonded slavery. We were lucky.

Dont forget Galvins at Cricklewood lane, probably the best contractor that left kerry

None of the stupid high vis and stupid hard hats back then. I could careless about health and safety when your numbers up its up. Bunch of pansys today.

Did my time in Cricklewood late 80s.

Love the Irish. Their men are soo luscious!

Fact all white British people are 30to 36 % British. Research it

makes me cry.

I was born in South London from a Kerry Mother and I used to do that work. Sometimes if we were working far away we didn't get home until very late because the Lads would be stopping off at every pub on the way. Great times.

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Worked in reading and slough in the eighties.those were the days..

I worked on the sites in London in the 80s. Just walk on and ask for the start. Might take 4-5 days going to dozens of sites but eventually you'd get taken on. Can't do that now with all the security and fencing. Harry Bonello and Dick RIP.

We all work. Never mind where from

I’m a south London bricklayer in my 36th year now. I have many a good memories working with the Irish back in the eighties mainly. Good honest hard working men. Sadly it’s all Eastern European now. Not the same as the old days. Regards from south London England

Yes, they were treated badly by the English, not by the blacks, Indians, Aborigines and American Indians. They were (the IRISH) the one that plays the middle man for the suffering and murdering of these race of people. Also, they were exploited in the UK by their own race playing the middle man check out archives and history books

I am irish and working in South East of England I am a modern day version of these men and could even be thrown back in time and would be comfortable working in them trenches with them boys but difference is I get paid better and I bring it home every Fri night and come back for work early Mon mornings these poor boys never got paid so much that they could travel home every weekend 👍🇮🇪

🇮🇪 love it the Irish built Britain

These Irish sub contractors were very bad to their own còuntrymen

Those men ended up with serious injuries and illness but they were abandoned by their so called employers and British and Irish governments.

Coming from three generations of symphony musician snobs, only classical music was allowed in my home. Eventually, with 8 kids, that rule didn't hold up. Absolutely and Completely was the first non classical music introduced into my home. Father Riley says Goodbye moved me deeply as a child. It remains a sentimental favorite.

Or a Tipp man. When my father came back from the Congo. Left the army and off to London. Digging trenches under the road.

A title that could've said those that fought for it ohhhhh but it wouldn't an the reason is- hmmmmm