A Manchester paper dated the 9th of August 1838 had this to say:
Disturbances in Rochdale by 30 Navigators who paraded the streets with bludgeons and knocked down one of the Watchmen, James Woolfenden, who has since been unable to follow his employment.
Fines of 40/- and costs were imposed.
These men were probably engaged in building the Summit Railway Tunnel with work on the air shafts in full swing by 1838.
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