The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter - Page 3

flashy · 11-12-2010, 09:59

i'm more a 'knocker outter' John

jaysay · 11-12-2010, 10:25

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Originally Posted by flashy

i'm more a 'knocker outter' John

Whatever turns you on Shaz

Gordon Booth · 11-12-2010, 17:38

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Originally Posted by flashy

my great gran was a 'knocker upper' not a 'knocker offer'

Flashy, just wondering, did she do that before she went to the mill herself? I always assumed the 'knocker-uppers' were mill workers earning a little extra(what a hard way to do that!).

flashy · 11-12-2010, 17:47

don't know Gordon, i think my dad will have to answer than one

Gremlin · 11-12-2010, 19:32

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

"8.30 and time to get up" - you were obviously still a schoolboy.
I started work before that time, as most people did.

I was a school boy Margaret until I left at 16 years of age early in 1954.
I just realised I never put the date of the clocks being fitted to the gas lamps, maybe that confused you.

jaysay · 12-12-2010, 10:53

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

I was a school boy Margaret until I left at 16 years of age early in 1954.
I just realised I never put the date of the clocks being fitted to the gas lamps, maybe that confused you.

Was that at grammar school Gremlin, school leaving age was 15 in those days I stayed on another year to take GCE (which was by choice then)

Gremlin · 12-12-2010, 19:21

Yes jaysay, Todmorden Grammar School, they taught pupils there until they were 18 years old if they were good enough to graduate up from a lower one.
I left after year 5 which would make me 16, I would have had to continue Latin and found it very hard to take in. My brother left at the end of the year Upper sixth and went onto University.
Many famous people were educated at Todmorden Grammar, Sir John Cockroft was one , he was the one who split the atom. The headmaster was annoyed, he wanted it kept in one piece.

A quick change of subject, my screen font has just gone bigger but only on this forum. Is there a way to make it smaller again so there are more lines on the page or is it something the admin has done?

jaysay · 13-12-2010, 10:30

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

Yes jaysay, Todmorden Grammar School, they taught pupils there until they were 18 years old if they were good enough to graduate up from a lower one.
I left after year 5 which would make me 16, I would have had to continue Latin and found it very hard to take in. My brother left at the end of the year Upper sixth and went onto University.
Many famous people were educated at Todmorden Grammar, Sir John Cockroft was one , he was the one who split the atom. The headmaster was annoyed, he wanted it kept in one piece.

A quick change of subject, my screen font has just gone bigger but only on this forum. Is there a way to make it smaller again so there are more lines on the page or is it something the admin has done?

Think your better off opening a new thread in Feedback Suggestions and Help Gremlin

Gremlin · 13-12-2010, 20:19

I will do that jaysay.