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Hoop Roller?

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Help please! Does anyone have any idea what a hoop roller was? I've tried looking on the old occupations sites but can't find anything.
I now have 3 generations of hoop rollersand am intrigued!
I think it may be to do with iron working (?) as the last hoop roller is also listed on the census as being a iron puddler.
Any information gratefully received.
 
Hi Mand,

May be nothing to do with your hoop roller, but I have, in a tree I am doing, hoop and hurdle makers. These hoops were heavy duty barrel/cask hoops made from wood, that were then used for transporting goods. I have a photo on my 'Howell & Lilly thread', page 2, post 15.

Ann
 
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P.S. Mand,

If yours are connected to the iron industry, perhaps he rolled out the bar of metal into strips, which were then used as 'the hoops' to make barrels/casks. So they were metal casks instead of the wooden ones in my photo.

Ann
 
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