Chapman
Itinerant peddler or hawker.
Occupation
Occupation
Herring girls
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Occupation
Tackler
Supervisor in a textile factory responsible for the working of a number of power looms and the weavers who operated them.
Occupation, Sanitation
Gong farmer
Someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.
Coal mining, Occupation
Pit Brow Women
Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
