Saturday 13 October 2012

Occupations - The Jobs We Did

1. Brass moulderA person who moulds, founds or casts brass. Most brass moulders would have worked in the brass foundries of the shipyards on the Clyde. Here they would have cast the parts of red copper and bronze used in shipbuilding. 

2. Hammerman - A person who operates a hammer e.g. in a blacksmiths, or shipyard, or a steam hammer in a foundry.


3. Steam Crane Driver


4. Biscuit Baker


5. Domestic Servant


6. Iron Driller - A person who drilled holes in iron, for example  in a shipyard where the holes were drilled in order too take rivets. It would have been a skilled job, as iron is brittle and easily shattered.


7. Iron Buffer


8. Rope Worker


9. Biscuit Packer





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