Food & Drink0 min ago
Just WHAT is a slaker?
I read on the 1911 census that one of my ancestors (female) was a SLAKER(it was quite clear).I can't find it anywhere on the net.
Does anyone have any idea what it could be?
She lived in Shepherds Bush/Acton,if that's any help?
Does anyone have any idea what it could be?
She lived in Shepherds Bush/Acton,if that's any help?
Answers
It's an occupation in a dyin factory, mixing the dye with water
20:53 Wed 24th Nov 2010
is shepherds bush anywhere near here
Greenford is considered to be birthplace of the modern organic chemical industry, as it was at William Perkin's chemical factory in North Greenford, by the Grand Union Canal that the world's first aniline dye was discovered in March 1856. Perkin called his amazing discovery 'mauveine'. Today there is a blue plaque marking the spot in Oldfield Lane North, just south of the Black Horse Public House. The former Rockware glassworks on the canal is commemorated by Rockware Avenue. Greenford formed part of Greenford Urban District from 1894 to 1926 and was then absorbed by the Municipal Borough of Ealing.
Greenford is considered to be birthplace of the modern organic chemical industry, as it was at William Perkin's chemical factory in North Greenford, by the Grand Union Canal that the world's first aniline dye was discovered in March 1856. Perkin called his amazing discovery 'mauveine'. Today there is a blue plaque marking the spot in Oldfield Lane North, just south of the Black Horse Public House. The former Rockware glassworks on the canal is commemorated by Rockware Avenue. Greenford formed part of Greenford Urban District from 1894 to 1926 and was then absorbed by the Municipal Borough of Ealing.
slake
To slake is to lessen or abate. You can slake your thirst by drinking, or slake someone's fear by reassuring them. To slake can also be to cool or refresh by wetting or moistening, and to slake lime (calcium oxide) is to change it into calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) by combining it with water. Of all these meanings, the oldest is the first one. The word is from Middle English slaken (to abate), from Old English slacean, derived from slaec (sluggish). This root was also the source of Modern English slack, slacken, and slacker. From the idea of slaking thirst by drinking came slaking by adding water to cool or refresh. That usage led to slaking as a name for the chemical alteration of lime by adding water. Unlike slaking to cool, slaking lime causes the release of heat.
To slake is to lessen or abate. You can slake your thirst by drinking, or slake someone's fear by reassuring them. To slake can also be to cool or refresh by wetting or moistening, and to slake lime (calcium oxide) is to change it into calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) by combining it with water. Of all these meanings, the oldest is the first one. The word is from Middle English slaken (to abate), from Old English slacean, derived from slaec (sluggish). This root was also the source of Modern English slack, slacken, and slacker. From the idea of slaking thirst by drinking came slaking by adding water to cool or refresh. That usage led to slaking as a name for the chemical alteration of lime by adding water. Unlike slaking to cool, slaking lime causes the release of heat.
Dr Filth,
Greenford is going in the right direction,and only 5 miles from Acton,but I don't think a woman would have gotten involved in chemical workings?
Naz,the reason I think it might be dyeing is that up till the 1st World War Acton was one big laundry(hundreds of them) and so dyeing as well as washing might have come into it.
As I said to Dr Filth,I don't think that women would have gotten into Slaked Lime manufacture.
However,I could be wrong.
Greenford is going in the right direction,and only 5 miles from Acton,but I don't think a woman would have gotten involved in chemical workings?
Naz,the reason I think it might be dyeing is that up till the 1st World War Acton was one big laundry(hundreds of them) and so dyeing as well as washing might have come into it.
As I said to Dr Filth,I don't think that women would have gotten into Slaked Lime manufacture.
However,I could be wrong.
if she was working in a dye factory they would have lime dont forget years ago people had some strange jobs.
can you imagine seeing young ladies humping coal about into wagons ?
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can you imagine seeing young ladies humping coal about into wagons ?
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