Unusual occupations

[barryd]

Durham Mining Occupations. Some may be unique to Durham.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

[Rosinish]

Just been to have a look at my database:

Opium Agent

Seems the £ was good even then 

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_opium1.htm

Annie

[JAKnighton]

Durham Mining Occupations. Some may be unique to Durham.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

My great-grandfather was a hewer who worked in the coal mines of Consett. His brother was a "puller-up" which I don't see on the list.

[Andrew Tarr]

Flatman. On the Mersey. Maybe not as unusual as all that but I enjoy the visual image that it conjures up.

As you will know, not at all unusual on the Mersey, as it was the local type of small boat.

[Guyana]

My wife has a relative who was a Bath Chair Attendant.(Leamington Spa)

[bykerlads]

Mule Spinner.
Greasey Percher.
Lots of others in the fine worsted textile industry.

[stanmapstone]

Durham Mining Occupations. Some may be unique to Durham.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

My great-grandfather was a hewer who worked in the coal mines of Consett. His brother was a "puller-up" which I don't see on the list.

Puller-up, conveyor puller-up; moves forward coal conveyor as face or gateway advance. "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"

Stan

[coombs]

Stevedore.

[GrahamSimons]

list of 100!
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/SRC_P/8/EW1881GEN