Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

i'm more a 'knocker outter' John ;)

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

Whatever turns you on Shaz:rolleyes:

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

Flashy, just wondering, did she do that before she went to the mill herself? I always assumed the 'knocker-uppers' were mill workers earning a little extra(what a hard way to do that!).

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

don't know Gordon, i think my dad will have to answer than one

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

I was a school boy Margaret until I left at 16 years of age early in 1954.
I just realised I never put the date of the clocks being fitted to the gas lamps, maybe that confused you.

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

Was that at grammar school Gremlin, school leaving age was 15 in those days I stayed on another year to take GCE (which was by choice then)

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

Yes jaysay, Todmorden Grammar School, they taught pupils there until they were 18 years old if they were good enough to graduate up from a lower one.
I left after year 5 which would make me 16, I would have had to continue Latin and found it very hard to take in. My brother left at the end of the year Upper sixth and went onto University.
Many famous people were educated at Todmorden Grammar, Sir John Cockroft was one , he was the one who split the atom. The headmaster was annoyed, he wanted it kept in one piece.

A quick change of subject, my screen font has just gone bigger but only on this forum. Is there a way to make it smaller again so there are more lines on the page or is it something the admin has done?

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

Think your better off opening a new thread in Feedback Suggestions and Help Gremlin

Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter
 

I will do that jaysay.