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

Slipper Bath Attendant. Do Slipper Baths exist?

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.?

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

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...

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

We had a lot on tick. Onlyy way we coul have anything but Nan wouldn't do HP unless or was electrical, if it broke she would stop paging till it was repaired.

The Co Op insurance man diddled me I am glad the dog bit him. We had to in & pay after that . Think we had the man from the Pru too he never came in.

Pub up the d ft tgey smoke outside in blizzards ours blow a trumpet badly and all the local dogs howl. In France a dusyman shook hand as I handed him the bag, as did the grave diggers and they blessed the grave with holy water.

an excuse to pop in for a jar?

I think they have to, although it grates a bit, as knowledge is not being passed down. The grandchildren think I am wonderful with the simplest games and make shift toys, even my fingers, that is not on an ipad or needs a battery.

I do also. We were all fascinated, with his tuning fork. Also the BT engineers used to shin up the telegraph poles there are tiny steps. Now they are not allowed to they use cherry pickers. And steeple jacks

Odeon Cinema Coventry I think is an iconic building with a spectacularly dome now preserved thankfully as part of Coventry University.

I still have a Rag Mag so a Rag Mag producer. One of the jokes concerns an avon lady

The muffin man

One of my birth relatives was too. His daughter can't remember the job title but he was in between the Birmingham slaughterhouse & the meat market butchers as a supervisory role, he was qualified to.to do both

I think drum and piano makers are becoming a trade of the past sadly. And piano tuners. I was told that a company makes furniture out of old drums, I couldn't sell a late friends for love nor money he had 2 drum kits. The Piano in The Tipperary Inn Meer End is a fish tank. Our youngest calls it...

Is that where they make an impression in sand then fill it with metal. ? Fascinating

They employed a group of women once from a Time In Motion company from Scotland. They always wore black . They stripped out a whole line of management 3 who took pay cuts & became secretaries to the remaining Managers who went up a peg. So much for money saving. We called them the Scottish...

We had some really unusual surnames . Possible occupations like Chitty. Ablewhite. Curtain.Hunting. Quilter. Squire. Yeomans. Facer. etc. Not many of those occupations about now.