Dictionary of Old Occupations
Jobs beginning B-Ban | Jobs beginning Bar-Bay | Jobs beginning Be-Bes | Jobs beginning Bi-Blo
Jobs beginning Blu-Bon | Jobs beginning Boo-Boz | Jobs beginning Br-Bru | Jobs beginning Bu-But
Glossary of jobs beginning B - Ban
Backmaker: maker of vats, tubs or "Backs", also another name for a cooper (barrel maker).
Back Tenter: often a small child who cleared away loose fibre / rubbish from behind the working weaving looms, this was noisy and dangerous job.
Back Washer: cleaned wool as part of worsted manufacture.
Badger: a hawker or seller of food.
Badgy Fiddler: boy trumpeter.
Bagman: travelling salesman.
Bagniokeeper: brothel or bathhouse keeper.
Bag Room Boy: odd job boy in the pottery industry who helps sort the bags for the press, which was used to remove moisture from the slip to make clay.
Bailiff: an officer of the court, or am overseer of the manor.
Bairman: a pauper or beggar
Baker Maker: in the pottery industry he hand pressed the clay to produce oval dishes called Baker.
Bal Maiden: a female surface worker at a mine.
Balancer: worked in coal mines, operating a coal hauling system involving tubs called a balance.
Baler: a person who baled hay, or a mill worker who baled wool or cotton.
Bailiff: an under-officer employed to make arrests and execute writs.
Ballast Heaver: loaded empty ships with ballast.
Ballast Master: in charge of ballasting vessels.
Ballad Monger: a maker or seller of ballads.
Baller: measured out balls of clay for the thrower. (pottery industry term).
Baller Up: see Baller.
Ballista Archer: used an early form of the crossbow.
Bandsman: coal mine labourer working in a group or band.
Bandster: seasonal worker (Harvest time) who binds the wheat sheaves ready for stacking after the reapers have cut them.
Bang Beggar: a Constable who carried a large stick (slang), or an Officer of the Parish who set a limit to the amount of time strangers could stay.
Bank Manager: supervisor at a Coal Mine.
Bank odd man: odd job man (Labourer) in the pottery industry.
Banker: a surface worker in the coal mining industry, or a drainage ditch digger.
Banksman: unloaded cages when they reached the surface of a coalmine and signalled the descent of the workmen / cage.
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The name 'Bobby' comes from Sir Robert Peel who, as home secretary, oversaw the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829. In spite of his position as a national institution and his appeal as a solution to present-day concerns about law and order, the social history of the Bobby has rarely been explored. Yet his story (and since the beginning of the twentieth century it is also her story) is as exciting as that of his military cousin, Tommy Atkins. Bobby served on the front line of what is often characterized as 'the war against crime.' He may rarely have fought in pitched battles and almost never with lethal weapons, but his life could be hard and dangerous.
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