Mick Hutton is a former navvy and tube-train driver, and now works as a musician and plumber.
November 2, 2009 Being a Navvy
It is 1973 and I am standing in Ilford Station on a Sunday afternoon where the track used to be. I’m working as a navvy and according to my payslip I am a plate-layer. We’ve been here nearly twelve hours already and the job is nowhere near finished — we need to get the new…