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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: poppy16 on Sunday 11 July 10 21:25 BST (UK)
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Hi, could anyone help me with these three occupations please? I think I can make out part of each of them, but not sure!
The first one looks like Brick................... Labourer?
second one looks like Stable lad/hand at ..................................?
and the third one I think says Toffee maker at............................?
Thanks very much.
Nicola
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Hi Poppy -
do you know where this return was taken? I ask because it looks like Brickcroft to me, and I'm wondering if that is perhaps the name of an Estate or similar, where one of them might be a Labourer and the other a Stable hand?
p.s. just googled - it's not a return for Lancashire, around Preston, is it?
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Hi, it says Brickcroft- a croft or open space where the brickworks was and where the clay was moulded in wooden shapes by hand prior to being fired .
The stable lad was also at the brickworks.
It`s hard to see if says Coffee or Toffee maker for the third ,and the last word I can`t make out at all. Sorry. Best of luck .Viktoria.w
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Thanks Viktoria, I did wonder if brickcroft meant a brickworking but I think I got sidetracked by the 'at'
Poppy, ignore mine, Viktoria's interpretation is far better!
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The last word looks like Chemist. But why would there be either a Toffee or Coffee Maker at a Chemist's?
???
Jen
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Perhaps a Cough Toffee maker at a Chemist`s ( pharmacy) ::)Viktoria
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Hi Maggie
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it was Higher Broughton, Salford, 1911. I am sure there was a clay works in the area at that time, so I am thinking it is something to do with bricks, but I just can't work out what it says.
The Stable Lad/Hand one - the last word looks like something to do with bricks to me, but I don't know how the two would go together???
Nicola
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Perhaps a Cough Toffee maker at a Chemist`s ( pharmacy) ::)Viktoria
What a clever thought. I suppose cough sweets might well have been made on the premises. :)
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Thanks Viktoria, I guess they would've had horses and carts then to move the bricks around. I agree, it must be toffee for coughs - brilliant, thank you very much everyone!!
Nicola