The Boy Who Dug

This is a story that is 36 miles long and took 6 years to create. The ordinary people who built the North of England feature in these colourful pages. Rooted in a desire to provide for family, Davy experiences friendship, hardship, disaster and joy in the pursuit of his dream to build something big. A tale embedded in the earth, this story celebrates the engineering majesty of the industrial revolution and upraises the unknown champions who enabled it.