Occupations - past and present.

[Atarah]

Had reason to pop into the library today to look up some census info on ancestry and I started to realize just how job descriptions have changed dramatically over the years.

Todays information added to the next census return will include such jobs as:- computer support analyst, radio announcer, passenger assistant, travel agent, health technologist, taxi driver, telephone engineer, forester, etc., to name a few.

Lets go back a few years to 1897, to Warner Street, Accrington, and notice the difference:-

J Coates Cabinet maker
L Nuttall Paper bag maker
L Frank Painter
M Clark Fried fish
Mrs Clayton Butcher
Mrs Parker Dressmaker

R Ashworth Upholsterer
J Booth Watchmaker
T Broughton Clogger
J Cromwell Greengrocer
R Hoole Painter
T Southworth Tripe dealer
H Stuttard Innkeeper, Warners Arms
J Stephenson Pawn broker
J Woodyard Lodgings
H Higson Herb beer maker
Miss Pollard Eating House
A Lang China dealer
G Cronshaw Fent dealer
S Rushworth Boot maker
W Edsforth & Sons Brush makers

How times have changed eh?

 

[Bernard Dawson]

Interesting, where they all on one street?

 

[Atarah]

Yep, Bernard, all on Warner Street.

 

[jaysay]

Wonder if the eating house ended up as Bodens in the 1960/70

 

[garinda]

Funnily enough I still buy paper bags and paint on there, so just checked what's there now, compared with 1897.

WARNER STREET ACCRINGTON - warner street businesses.

 

[cashman]

9 properties empty.

 

[Bob Dobson]

Somebody ught to look at paper bag making in Accrington. An early (1870s?) visitor wrote sosmething which led the reader top think that the paper bag was invented here.May be it was a mchine for making them that was invented/patented here. I don't think that is the case, but it is summat worth enquiring into. From memory, this inventor lived/worked on Dale St.

Atarah's list reinforces the fact that Warner Street was an important commercial centre.

 

[garinda]

Somebody ught to look at paper bag making in Accrington. An early (1870s?) visitor wrote sosmething which led the reader top think that the paper bag was invented here.May be it was a mchine for making them that was invented/patented here. I don't think that is the case, but it is summat worth enquiring into. From memory, this inventor lived/worked on Dale St.

Atarah's list reinforces the fact that Warner Street was an important commercial centre.

Here's the thread about the paper bags.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f80/invented-1st-produced-or-credited-to-accrington-51116.html