Coal Trimmer

[denben]

Sadly I'm old enough to remember this!

Dockers were casual workers.  They turned up at seven in the morning and hoped to get chosen for a job.  If they didn't get chosen then they were said to have "blobbed".  They then turned up for the other call at eleven.  Sometimes they "blobbed" on this one as well.

Perhaps a "blob" because they got a zero next to their name on the list.

[Arranroots]

Well I am glad to be educated about the blob - amazing that they could be semi-humorous about it, under the circumstances it must have been awful to be 'blobbed'!

kind regards, Arranroots 

[steve100]

Ian I saw the photos a book by Cliff Knight about Pill.Hes written three books and the photos were in one of the first two.The books are coloured red, blue and yellow each covering a different time span.I had the red and blue books from the library so they`re in one of those two.Hope this helps a little.


                                         steve

[ian.h]

hi steve, thanks for the info on the books by cliff knight i did read them a good few years ago and was fascinated and saddened by some of the stories in them about pill from 1805-1900.

thanks you den for clarifying about the blob/ blobbing info.

i only found out a  year ago that my  gr gr grandfather william anstice on my dad side of the family was a river pilot and he went on to be  the dockmaster down newport docks in the 1870ish .
 atb ian .h