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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: Hilaryanne on Wednesday 15 June 05 18:05 BST (UK)
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As an occupation?
Thank you
Hilary
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Its a person who makes Clogs as opposed to shoes. The small village where I used to live had a clogger.
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http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/clogmaker/clogmaker1.htm
has quite a good piece on cloggers
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But he was only 13?
Seems a bit young to be making shoes, could it have something else? In the cotton factory perhaps?
Hilary
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it is only in todays society that we think of 13 as young ....... different societies different rules. He may perhaps have been apprenticed as a clogger (shoemaker)
However that said it is possible that this was also a term in use in mills although I haven't yet heard it used ... something similar is a doffer in the mills .... although in different mills this appears to have different meanings from clearing up to semi skilled/ skilled work with the looms.
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hello hilary,i think the term clogger was used on barges,when a barge was going through a tunnel,they would lie on their backs and walk the barge through by pushing on the roof of the tunnel,hence the name,clogger,mack
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When I lived in Lancashire I quite often went to the 'Clogger' to have new 'irons' fitted to my clogs.