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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Janet Waterhouse on Sunday 28 September 25 07:05 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I am having difficulty identifying the occupation of Arthur Normington on his 1935 marriage certificate.
Also Amy Jowett's fathers occupation, which looks like Cloth Presser?
Can you help.
Regards,
Janet
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Hi, I think the second one reads Cloth Passer, Cloth Inspector
Viz - https://www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/wrightluttonfactorylife.php
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He is “semi skilled fitter aircraft work” in 1939.
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Following and thanking Alan for his 1939 lead, Issac was living at the same address as a Cloth Raiser not Presser.
Could Arthur's occupation be Car-worker?
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That second letter isn’t a good match for an ‘a’ looking at other examples on the image.
Were there motor works near Morley at that time?
I believe that motor manufacturers were co-opted into building aircraft parts around that time.
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Apparently there was, by coincidence, Jowett Cars, a Bradford-based company, with Bierley being a suburb of Bradford.
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Snap!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Cars
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Apparently the Jowett works was at Idle, so not particularly near to Bierley.
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Surely Arthur is a core-worker? Making and positioning core-boxes will have been a fairly skilled job. (Note his father is a foundryman so they might have been working at the same foundry.)
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What is a core-worker?
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Here is a 1934 OS 25 inch map view of part of Bierley showing Langley Avenue in the bottom left corner and an Iron Foundry at the far right side. If you zoom out you will also see Yorkshire Galvanised Iron Works to the north of Langley Avenue.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/125642299#zoom=5.1&lat=2129&lon=4531&layers=BT
You can tell by the street layout that Langley Avenue was fairly modern at that time. The area is undeveloped on the corresponding map from 1921. There are earlier newspaper mentions of a Langley Avenue in Bingley, but the first mention for Bierley is from 1936.
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What is a core-worker?
"A core is a device used in casting and moulding processes to produce internal cavities and reentrant angles. The core is normally a disposable item that is destroyed to get it out of the piece. They are most commonly used in sand casting, but are also used in die casting and injection moulding. For example, cores define multiple passages inside cast engine blocks." - Wikipedia
(That was a better description than I would have managed.)The people constructing the cores for the moulds would probably have worked closely with the patternmakers who worked at each foundry.
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What is a core-worker?
"A core is a device used in casting and moulding processes to produce internal cavities and reentrant angles. The core is normally a disposable item that is destroyed to get it out of the piece. They are most commonly used in sand casting, but are also used in die casting and injection moulding. For example, cores define multiple passages inside cast engine blocks." - Wikipedia
(That was a better description than I would have managed.)The people constructing the cores for the moulds would probably have worked closely with the patternmakers who worked at each foundry.
Thanks.
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Thanks to all who replied and gave description of occupation.
Regards,
Janet