Trades and Occupations

Links

General

• Index of Old Occupations
• Victorian Occupations

Shoemakers

• Norwich Boot & Shoe Industry

• Shoe making terms explained

• Victorian London-Boot and shoe makers

• Producing history: the clicker's tale - England

Mining

• Durham Mining Museum

• Whitby Jet

• Whitby Jet Heritage Centre

• Cornish Miners

Textiles

• Silk Weaving in Foleshill, Coventry

• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum, Notts

• Textiles and Cotton Mills in Lancashire and Manchester

Transport

• Oral account of Coachbuilding, Early 1900’s

• The Railway Workers Family History Society

Metalworking

• Kidwelly Tin Plate Workers

Law and Order

• A history of the Metropolitan Police from 1829

Ceramics

• Database of over 1500 Stoke-on-Trent Potters

• Glossary of Occupations in the Pottery industry

Photography

• Victorian photographers 1850-1901

• Edwardian and Victorian Photographers

• Database of London photographers 1841-1908

• Edinburgh photographers

• Staffordshire Photographers 1861-1940

• Another database

Sports

• Cricketers past and present

• Database of over 50,000 cricketers and officials

• Pre-war British Boxing

Maritime

• Bristol Channel Pilots

• Cardiff mariners

Awaiting Classification

• Sugar Refiners and Sugar Bakers

• A biographical database of the British Chemical Community 1880-1970

• British Milling

• Lighthouse personnel in England, Wales and the Channel Islands 1790-1911

• British and Irish Clock & Watch Makers

• Clock and Watch makers

• BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX Index of names and brief trade and biographical details of people who were in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.
  

• THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE Includes printers, bookbinders and stationers.

• Artists, Designers and Craftspeople

• Surgeons and physicians licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775

• Database of Australian medical pioneers from the 1700s-1875

• Database of ORGANISTS, ORGAN BUILDERS and COMPOSERS OF ORGAN MUSIC

• Overseas Missionaries

• Nursing

• Brushmakinga

• Kidderminster's Carpet Heritage