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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: Antdamm on Friday 19 March 10 20:15 GMT (UK)
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I have a Michael Wynn on a marriage cert, his occupation is listed as a Calendar Worker.
What on earth is this??
Tried googling, but got nowhere
Thanks
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Hi there
Maybe this?!.......
Calenderer / Calenderman - "Calender" operator. A machine used to press and finish fabrics or paper between rollers
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/c.html
Sarah :)
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I can't be certain but when I worked in England many years ago the calendars were used in the rubber and plastics industry to prepare the compounds before spreading the material on fabrics.
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Calender: A machine consisting of two or more cylinders revolving so nearly in contact with each other that cloth passed between them is smoothed and glazed by their pressure; an establishment in which woven fabrics are calendered, starched, stretched and otherwise finished for the market; one engaged in calendering; a calenderer - vt. To press or finish in a calender.
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I have just read your name Gortonboy- The place I worked was Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co down in Salford.
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During the 40s and early 50s my mother worked in a laundry where they used a calendar press. I'm not sure whether it was used to iron dry garments or, like the old fashioned mangle, to squeeze water out of wet garments.
Orpheus
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Does it make any difference if the Marriage cert where the occupation came from was in 1885 in Scotland?
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Modern Calendar Machine:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/206739797/three_roller_calendar_machine.html
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Thanks very much everyone!!
:D
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My wife's great grandfather was a Calender Worker in Kirriemuir, Angus. I assumed it was something to do with the jute/linen industry and by the sound of the answers above , I guess I wasn't far off the mark. Thanks for all these interesting links. javascript:replaceText(' ;)', document.postmodify.message);
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I have an 1888 Marriage Regn in Dundee which has the groom's occupation as "Calendar Worker". Interestingly his occupation on another 1888 Regn is "Friday Worker" - perhaps a twist on the name used by those in that occupation
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There seems to be a bit of confusion re spelling ,the machine is a calendEr,we use a calendAr to see the date .
Very common occupation in textile towns and also as has been said,any substance that needed rolling out flat .
Laundries use them to iron sheets etc .
Viktoria,
( Google likes to alter spellings, thinking it knows what you really mean! >:(
Viktoria,
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There seems to be a bit of confusion re spelling ,the machine is a calendEr,we use a calendAr to see the date .
Very common occupation in textile towns and also as has been said,any substance that needed rolling out flat .
There's a Callender Street and a Callander Square in 2 former textile towns in Lancashire. Note the different spellings which I copied from 1997 edition of Ordnance Survey Street Atlas of Lancashire.
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Yet another spelling , two ll’s and two a’s ,.is one a Scottish place name.?
The latest two do not appear in my dictionary, but are perhaps names of noteworthy people of the town , or as I wonder, might be Scottish place names.
I must look at our Calender St ,it might well be one of the spellings you have given Maiden Stone ,it is there and I pass it frequently ,but seeing and looking are not the same with me!
Thanks.
Viktoria.
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Yet another spelling , two ll’s and two a’s ,.is one a Scottish place name.?
The latest two do not appear in my dictionary, but are perhaps names of noteworthy people of the town , or as I wonder, might be Scottish place names.
I must look at our Calender St ,it might well be one of the spellings you have given Maiden Stone ,it is there and I pass it frequently ,but seeing and looking are not the same with me!
CALLANDER is a town near Stirling in Scotland.
The street and the square I mentioned in my previous post are in Bury and Rochdale boroughs. Yes, you can look at the street sign.