Mick Hutton

Mick Hutton is a former navvy and tube-train driver, and now works as a musician and plumber.


November 2, 2009 Being a Navvy Mick Hutton

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…