Occupations you don't see so much of, any more

[Moscow Mule]

There's a milkman round our way.
There's a rag and bone man too, but he has a Luton van, not a horse and cart.
My mrs' old school had a tea lady.

[Unicorn]

Knocker Up

The modern version.

A knocker-up normally works on a council estate.

For the price of a few Bicardi Breezers the knocker-up will impregnant the local women folk. The women folk will then claim benefits and the knocker-upper will be paid in the form of Sky TV, flat screen TVs and sitting on his @rse on the sofa while the end result of the knocker-uppers activities run around screaming.

[Menelaus]

You don't work in manufacturing or logistics then. They all got rebranded "continous improvement".

w*nkers

[thunderlizard]

Knocker-up

Not to be confused with the "cocker-up".

These people are typically employed to be in charge of government initiatives like privatisations, IT projects and the tax system.

[bogeyman]

Genuine occupational titles from the 1881 Census of Great Britain

(Note: the occupations given here were in answer to the question 'rank, profession or occupation').

52 Years an Imbecile
Beef Twister
Bottie Washer
Boy for General Purposes
Can Make Nothing of the Paper
Colourist of Artificial Fish
Count as Female
Cow Banger (Ag Lab)
Curer of Smokey Chimneys
Dead
Decayed Publisher (No Occ)
Describes Himself as Leaving No Trace
Disinfector of Railway (Oths)
Dog Performer
Egg Breaker
Egg Cracker
Electric Bath Attendant
Emasculator
Employed with Head Off
Examiner of Underclothing
Fatuous Pauper
Feeding Boy to Printing Machine
Ferret Weaver
Fish Bender
Floater
Follows Wifely Occupations
Formerly Fat
Grape Dryer
Gymnast to House Painter
Hand in Hartleys Jam
Head of Female
Invalid Kings Evil
Invisible Net Maker
Keeps Own House at Home
Knocker Up of Workpeople
Maker of Sand Views
Negro Comedian White Eyed Musical Kaffir
Pensioner in Charge of the Magnet
Prime Minister (No Occ)
Proprietor of Midgets
Ripper Coalmine (Blows Roof Down)
Runs Abt Selling Fish (Hawker)
Rust Attendant at a Lavatory
Sampler of Drugs
Seperated from Head
Sick Maker
Supposed to be a Lady
Teacher of Wax Flowers
Tender of Charge of Cubes
Tool Maker (Screws) Wife
Travels With an Entire Horse
Unsettled Through Recent Death
Very Feeble
Watchmaker Master (No Hands)

[shaunbhoy]

large Midlands car plants

There are no "large Midlands car plants" left worth speaking of. Those industries were outsourced to Third World destinations (i.e. India/Sunderland etc.)

HTH

[Pogle]

I have a milkman.

[wenger14]

they still have trolley dollies on our train service

[BrilloPad]

We have a milkman. I sometimes see him when I am on early shift.

[thunderlizard]

Genuine occupational titles from the 1881 Census of Great Britain
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Negro Comedian White Eyed Musical Kaffir
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Ah, but there was only one White Eyed Musical Kaffir.

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