RootsChat.Com
Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: LesleyAS on Thursday 14 April 05 18:31 BST (UK)
-
What would someone who was an apprentice carter or Carter do in about 1924 please?
Lesley
-
A carter traditionally trasnported goods. Maybe he/she drove a van or car carrying goods?
-
Traditionally a Carter was a Waggoner, later from the proffesion carrier a Carter was a driver of Waggons usually goods only
-
There is a very strong chance that he was working as a carter for a railway as he mentions apprenticeship. Did he live in the vicinity of a large station? I have quite alot of information about railway horses and the men who worked with them. Let me know if you are interested.
Corkcutter
-
My grandfather lived in Bootle Liverpool and my mother thought he may have worked on the docks. I would be grateful for any information you have.
Thanks
Lesley
-
Almost certainly a carter at the docks then. They carried on using the big horses and carts to deliver and collect the merchandise arriving at the docks for many years.
My pictures are of railway horses etc. but you might like to look at a site about port cities which has all sorts of information about the docks. If you put "carter" in search it brings up a few photos, letters etc. - (as well as information about people called Carter of course). Log on to www.mersey-gateway.org/
Happy searching
Corkcutter
-
Everyone seems to have Lesley's 'Carter' sorted out.
However I think you do have to look at where the person worked or lived - I have two Carters- they never left the farms they were born on! so mine were Agricultural.
Suey
-
Many thanks to you all. Have a lovely picture of what my grandfather might have looked like on the docks now.
Lesley
-
I have found an ancestor who in 1939 was shown in the census as being a carter for the County Council. That suggests to me that he had regular work for the County Council since it was specifically mentioned in the census. I'm adding it here as it might help others, by indicating that the job of carter was still in existence in Cornwall in 1939.
-
Ricky tomlinson comic of The Royal Family soap has ancestors who where carters in Liverpool .
-
Liverpool Echo has some Liverpool-related ‘carter’ images here:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/gallery/carters-9168102 (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/gallery/carters-9168102)
WARNING: it’s a newspaper site so it’s full of ads, but it isn’t too bad.
-
I don’t think this one is in the Liverpool Echo gallery:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/8b/2c/e98b2c1627f4e38fc3d0bccb4c13c2bd.jpg (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/8b/2c/e98b2c1627f4e38fc3d0bccb4c13c2bd.jpg)
-
Liverpool Echo has some Liverpool-related ‘carter’ images here:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/gallery/carters-9168102 (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/gallery/carters-9168102)
WARNING: it’s a newspaper site so it’s full of ads, but it isn’t too bad.
That's a great gallery of photos Alan - thank you for sharing.
-
The image linked in my previous post is of the floating bridge linking the shore to the floating landing stage, at Princes’ Dock. The church in the background is Our Lady and St Nicholas. Here is a map view, if you move the slider (bottom left) you can see where it was in relation to modern Liverpool.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.5&lat=53.40653&lon=-2.99807&layers=168&b=osm&o=91 (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.5&lat=53.40653&lon=-2.99807&layers=168&b=osm&o=91)
-
The image linked in my previous post is of the floating bridge linking the shore to the floating landing stage, at Princes’ Dock. The church in the background is Our Lady and St Nicholas. Here is a map view, if you move the slider (bottom left) you can see where it was in relation to modern Liverpool.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.5&lat=53.40653&lon=-2.99807&layers=168&b=osm&o=91 (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.5&lat=53.40653&lon=-2.99807&layers=168&b=osm&o=91)
Kudos for another great share.
From the Liverpool Echo gallery you sent I went off down a rabbit hole! I have been digging around Stephen Shakeshift's work. What a gift of a job to have in those days - black and white photography and printed news papers to carry your work. Tight deadlines and analogue silver halide film.
This mapping overlay you have shared is another tool with which I had no familiarity. I've bookmarked it for future use :)
That floating bridge link must have increased the ability of the dock to work at various states of tide. Thinking of Liverpool Docks reminded me of a fire that became somewhat infamous in Fire Brigade marine firefighting training - the Empress of Canada. Anyway I digress!!