Occupations That Have Faded Away

[mw0njm.]

Hansom cab driver​

i see there is a similar thread

Occupations - Disappeared

For all the beer enthusiasts out there, some of these 6 ale occupation names are no longer in use. Any volunteers for the ale conner role?! Viv.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

[Richard Dye]

he open'd a shop on covenrty rd. was it mansuni

We have Farmers Markets in the Nashville/Franklin area, usually on a Saturday or Sunday and frequently you will find a knife sharpener there.
I do my own with a stone, steel or strop. I do remember them in Handsworth and Aston with a small cart or even a bike.

 

[Time Traveller 66]

Paying.

He was. He hated our neighbour too. An interfering, bullish woman. He bit dad too when he was going go hit me.

Bless him just protecting the people he loved . Unconditional love with dogs.

 

[Time Traveller 66]

Hansom cab driver​

i see there is a similar thread

Occupations - Disappeared

For all the beer enthusiasts out there, some of these 6 ale occupation names are no longer in use. Any volunteers for the ale conner role?! Viv.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Going back some decades there. I have seen one or two ugly cab drivers over the years.

 

[I Am Nico]

We have Farmers Markets in the Nashville/Franklin area, usually on a Saturday or Sunday and frequently you will find a knife sharpener there.
I do my own with a stone, steel or strop. I do remember them in Handsworth and Aston with a small cart or even a bike.

Nan had one screwed to the end of her kitchen cabinet, it was small square and had about 3 or 4 blades and you scraped your knife through it. And it screeched. But granddad sharpened the carving knife on a special big stone he kept outside. Or on a long tool , this had brought back that Sunday sound.

 

[Astoness]

just noticed we have 2 threads for occupations that has faded...will shortly be merging the two

 

[Richard Dye]

Nan had one screwed to the end of her kitchen cabinet, it was small square and had about 3 or 4 blades and you scraped your knife through it. And it screeched. But granddad sharpened the carving knife on a special big stone he kept outside. Or on a long tool , this had brought back that Sunday sound.

The long tool is a steel which most butchers had in addition to the stone. The butcher's stone was a wheel moved by a treadle which I had push while they sharpened. The stone is a heavy sharpener the steel for touch up. A strop was used in barber shops to get a very keen edge!

 

[I Am Nico]

The long tool is a steel which most butchers had in addition to the stone. The butcher's stone was a wheel moved by a treadle which I had push while they sharpened. The stone is a heavy sharpener the steel for touch up. A strop was used in barber shops to get a very keen edge!

I forgot the word, thank you., Did it spark?

 

[Richard Dye]

I forgot the word, thank you., Did it spark?

It might depending upon the type of blade steel and how hard you were pushing.

 

[I Am Nico]

On my phone feed a Historical American subject came up, a lady, looks like 1930s had a a small bookcase strapped to her back she was a mobile Library. Did we have those here.?

 

[superdad3]

Just browing on the 1861 Census in Aston and at 15 St James Place came across Hannah White who was a Mangle Woman.

 

[I Am Nico]

Slipper Bath Attendant. Do Slipper Baths exist?

 

[I Am Nico]

I remember the tripe woman she had a stall in the market, just tripe, I used to run past.

 

[Morturn]

Slipper Bath Attendant. Do Slipper Baths exist?

They did they were a type of public Bath cast iron with a roll top slightly higher at one end

 

[mikejee]

I think we have now covered almost all likely old occupations , and are now just repeating what has been posted before. So thank you for your contributions. the thread is now locked