Doffer

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Doffer​

Doffers, for instance, were nimble-fingered young boys who worked in textile factories removing and replacing bobbins from the spinning frames​

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[Eric Gibson]

Likewise the Doffer, the machine he's working at has Taunton Massachusetts on the end.
I did though have a great uncle who was a Birmingham lamplighter.

 

[Stokkie]

There's a well-known folk song 'The Doffing Mistress' which originated in the Ulster linen mills. Anne Briggs recorded this in 1963, but lots of folk singers have sung versions. (A doffing mistress was the overseer). I think that apart from engineers most mill workers were women and girls?)
https://mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs/songs/thedoffingmistress.html

 

[robert]

My Grandfather was a cotton doffer in a cotton mill in Manchester 1881 aged 12.

 

[Richard Dye]

Likewise the Doffer, the machine he's working at has Taunton Massachusetts on the end.
I did though have a great uncle who was a Birmingham lamplighter.

Taunton Mass is/was an area known for the development of textile equipment. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island etc, known as New England were the centers of textile and weaving equipment including gun and ammunition production and development.