My grandfather Eamonn Hughes, who has died aged 87, was proud of the contribution he made as an Irishman to building modern Britain by working in the postwar construction industry.
He started out in the late 1950s as a labourer in the Leeds area, progressing to supervise civil engineering projects with the Yorkshire firm Ogdens of Otley. There he played his part in many big enterprises, including the building of the south stand at Leeds United’s Elland Road ground in 1974.
