Eric, I think they went the same way as the "punch card" operator............Replaced by electronics!Do comptometer operators still exist?
Bob
I used to teach my pupils that having transferable skills would make them more employable in the future. When jobs become defunct people need to avoid becoming deskilled and must try to draw on any, and all, skills they have acquired. This advice is becoming more and more relevant today. The other thing I used to stress was that all experience of work was important for acquiring knowledge and skills.As a former secondary teacher I was told years ago that the majority of pupils would end up in jobs which hadn't existed when they were born.
Janice, I never got a goldfish but do the remember the milk and bread man in horse drawn carts.The only caller I can remember with a horse drawn cart was the rag and bone man. I can remember pestering my Mother for things to take in the hope of getting a goldfish.
Bread and milk were electric floats and coal was a lorry. I was fascinated by the ones with scales on the back for weighing the coal. My job was to count the sacks.
Also long gone are the delivery men, including bread, coal, laundry man who collected dirty laundry and delivered it washed and pressed a few days later. I haven't seen a chimney sweep in many years although I believe a few still exist.
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these still exist here
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 errorI don't think I ever got one off the rag and bone man either. I think my parents bought me one in the end to stop me pestering
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.Cobblers, no one repairs holes in shoes anymore