Dictionary of Old Occupations and Trades |
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| Basil Worker | - Used bark to tan the skins of lambs and sheep, the resulting leather was called basil and could be used to bind books. | |||||
| Basin Maker | - Produced basins on a Jolley which is similar to a potters wheel “Pottery industry”. | |||||
| Basketman | - A) Loaded barges with coal using a basket B) Produced baskets and other household items from wicker which involved weaving slender willow branches or similar. | |||||
| Bast Dresser | - Dressed woody fibres obtained from plants for use in matt making. | |||||
| Bathing Machine Proprietor | - Rented out huts at the seaside which were used by bathers to change into swimming costumes, some of these were horse drawn with steps so that they could be moved to enable bathers to step straight into the water. | |||||
| Batman | - “Army” an officer’s servant/orderly. | |||||
| Bat Maker | - Produced divisions for saggers which were clay boxes used in the pottery industry. | |||||
| Batt Maker | - Produced batting the padding used in quilt making and which was also used for mattresses. | |||||
| Battledore Maker | - A) Made the bats used in the game battledore which is similar to badminton B) Produced the paddles used in early washing machines C) Rug beater maker. | |||||
| Bauer | - Peasant or farmer. | |||||
| Baven Maker | - Produced kindling. | |||||
| Bawd | - Prostitute or brothel keeper. | |||||
| Baxter | - Baker | |||||
| Bayweaver | - Wove baize or bay as it was known, this fabric is still in use today as a covering on snooker tables. | |||||
| Bead Piercer | - Bored the holes in beads. | |||||
| Beadle | - A) Parish constable B) Parish official used to keep the peace or as an usher at weddings. | |||||
| Bedesman or Beadsman | - Paid to pray for the soul of his employer. | |||||
| Beamer | - Threaded the warp yarn onto the loom in preparation for weaving. | |||||
| Bearer | - Worked in a coal mine moving coal from the coal face to the shaft ready for lifting to the surface. | |||||
| Beater or Fuller | - Thickened and removed oil and dirt from woollen based cloth by treading it in a solution of water mixed with fullers earth. | |||||
| Beatster | - Fishing net mender (Usually a woman). | |||||
| Beaver | - Used fur from the beaver to produce hat making felt. | |||||
| Bedman | - Church caretaker or Sexton. | |||||
| Bedral | - Church official “Scotland”. | |||||
| Bedwevere | - Quilt weaver and webbing maker for use on bed frames. | |||||
| Bee Skep Maker | - Made beehives which were woven basket on the inside and often thatched on the outside to keep the bees warm. | |||||
| Beetler | - Used the Beetling Machine to emboss fabric. | |||||
| Belhoste | - Inn keeper. | |||||
| Bell Hanger | - Hung bells in church bell towers. | |||||
| Bellfounder | - Made bells in a foundry. | |||||
| Bellman | - A) Town Crier B) Collected coach mail by ringing a bell which attracted people’s attention C) Watchman. | |||||
| Bell Maiden | - Surface worker at a tin mine. | |||||
| Bellowfarmer | - Repaired bellows powered church organs. | |||||
| Belly Builder | - Produced and assembled piano interiors. | |||||
| Belly Roller | - Operated a machine that rolled and smoothed the surface of the leather/hide taken from the cow’s belly. | |||||
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