What is a clogger?

[Hilaryanne]

As an occupation?

Thank you
Hilary

[grendlsmother]

Its a person who makes Clogs as opposed to shoes.   The small village where I used to live had a clogger.

[RJ_Paton]

http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/clogmaker/clogmaker1.htm

has quite a good piece on cloggers

[Hilaryanne]

But he was only 13?
Seems a bit young to be making shoes, could it have something else?  In the cotton factory perhaps?
Hilary

[RJ_Paton]

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.

[manmack]

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

[Davy Boy]

When I lived in Lancashire I quite often went to the 'Clogger' to have new 'irons' fitted to my clogs.