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Offline Ladyhawk

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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #9 on: Monday 27 May 24 15:40 BST (UK) »
Quote from: LizzieL on Monday 27 May 24 15:25 BST (UK)
Found ER in 1939, a reference to time in her occupation!

Check 1921 census
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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #10 on: Monday 27 May 24 16:30 BST (UK) »
Wow, that's not an occupation, that's an essay !
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #11 on: Monday 27 May 24 16:31 BST (UK) »
Should we start a thread on the longest occupation description?  ;D
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #12 on: Monday 27 May 24 16:51 BST (UK) »
Quote from: LizzieL on Monday 27 May 24 15:25 BST (UK)
Found ER in 1939, a reference to time in her occupation!

It's hard to realise that in  earlier centuries there were different time zones in Britain.  Even when Greenwich Meantime was introduced.

It wasn't until the introduction of the railways that eventually the Great Western Railway (GWR) stopped quoting the local time in each town that clocks around the country all showed the same time.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 09 October 25 12:39 BST (UK) »
Well I've learned something new today

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Re: Occupation: Time Seller !
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 09 October 25 19:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rena on Monday 27 May 24 16:51 BST (UK)

It wasn't until the introduction of the railways that eventually the Great Western Railway (GWR) stopped quoting the local time in each town that clocks around the country all showed the same time.
To see the farcical way in which the French railways tried to cope with time differences, watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELruSTO3qI
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