Occupations - Disappeared

[Bob Davis]

In the period 1945 to 1950, we had horse and cart deliveries by Co OP milk and bread, coal, co op and a couple of others , LMS and GWR parcels and holiday suitcase collection, the last one I can remember was Handsworth Dairies with their smaller carts and smaller horses. Then there were none
Bob

 

[oldbrit]

They do Timpsons with High Street and supermarket outlets still have shoe repair key cutting and sometimes dry cleaning operations. In your time in the UK they were shoe shops.
Bob

In Colorado we did have shoe repair shops but most have gone now

 

[mw0njm.]

Seems like mine came from the Bull Ring or near there. Regardless they did not seem to last very long! Today we would say operator error

we had chicks.off the ragman, i would have given dads sunday suit for one.if i was given half a chance

 

[mw0njm.]

Cobblers, no one repairs holes in shoes anymore

sounds like a good song

 

[chrissweep]

they are still in use here in wales. we have open fires still.

As a member for over 20 years I can qualify that.

 

[mw0njm.]

PETROL PUMP ATTENDANTS still around in the sticks.

we have a old man that comes out to put the fuel in you car etc. if he is not around,i start to put the fuel in my self,... if he sees you he goes mad at you

 

[Morturn]

My local garage, only a few hundred yards away in Moseley still fills the car for you.

 

[oldbrit]

"Filler up and check the oil" Those days long gone in the USA, just like 25cent a gal gas (Petrol)

 

[mw0njm.]

"Filler up and check the oil" Those days long gone in the USA, just like 25cent a gal gas (Petrol)

and a shot of redex please

 

[devonjim]

They do Timpsons with High Street and supermarket outlets still have shoe repair key cutting and sometimes dry cleaning operations. In your time in the UK they were shoe shops.
Bob

And watch repairs! At least the one in Barnstaple High St. does.

 

[castalla]

Still have petrol attendance here in Spain. keeps people in employment i guess,

 

[Bob Davis]

And watch repairs! At least the one in Barnstaple High St. does.

The chap who seems to be the manager there went to school with my children, known him for years.

bob

And watch repairs! At least the one in Barnstaple High St. does.

 

[robroy]

My first job after leaving school was a trainee typewriter service engineer..Mainly in central Birmingham..in the 60s and 70s in those days every shop and office had at least one machine ,and the larger companies had hundreds...all gone.

 

[Morturn]

I was fascinated watching a guy repair a pub cash register, one of the older mechanical types. It had thousands of small leavers and springs etc. Another job gone with electric cash machines.

 

[sospiri]

Robroy,

I hope you didn't think you had a job for life! We used to have a private typewriter museum in Bournemouth some years ago and when the owner decided he wanted to get rid of it, he offered the typewriters to all the museums and didn't get any takers. I presume that they were eventually just dumped.

Maurice

 

[Arnold Mason]

In the mid 50's there was a shop in Quinton that repaired ladders in ladies stockings. The person doing the job sat in the front window of the shop. I can't imagine that job exists now.

 

[mw0njm.]

In the mid 50's there was a shop in Quinton that repaired ladders in ladies stockings. The person doing the job sat in the front window of the shop. I can't imagine that job exists now.

were the legs still in them?

 

[Arnold Mason]

were the legs still in them?

Fortunately - or unfortunately - depending on your point of view there were no legs inside.

 

[JohnJames]

Corona Pop Saturday delivery job

 

[Astoness]

ahh the old pop delivery man but do not see them these days

lyn