Mervyn
Mitchell
Quite a nice little boy
Before he became an Engineer
Just a few Old Construction Photos
An Engineer's Tale
is SO Interesting
Rough Tales from the Sites as told by the Construction Men and Navvies who lived, worked, and sometimes died, in civil engineering Told by someone who was there and listened.
Cautionary Notice
Any relationship to or possible identification of any person (living or dead) is purely coincidental and is completely deniable.
All the characters are a combination of faulty memory, imagination and more than one or two or four.
So it is not you.
It is the bloke in another place, and at another time.
Most of the events are actually “true” in the same way that 'I read it in the paper so it must be right'.
This has all been done, not only, to protect the guilty from retribution but, incidentally, me too.
Mervyn JS Mitchell
I worked for forty years in civil engineering and
'public works' contracting (as it used to be properly called).
I learned a little about Heavy civil engineering
and a lot more about the people in it.
'And Now I is One'
is about
the men and women who did it
and then did it all again only better
and sometimes not so well.
Some were rogues, thieves, 'chancers' but mostly they just worked to make a living for themselves and their family.
You decide
who is who and which is which
Mervyn
Mitchell
What Civil Engineering does to you
