Extinct Jobs

[evadora]

When I was younger I worked as a bus Conductress for London Transport at South Croydon Bus Garage on the 68 bus from South Croydon to Chalk Farm in North London. Then the one man operator buses came about and I was transferred to Thornton Heath Garage on the 109 bus to Blackfriars and the Embankment. Eventually I transferred to an office job at Head Office at Broadway (opposite Scotland Yard). You very rarely see a conductor on the bus now, an almost extinct job. I loved my days as a Clippie!! and have wonderful memories of those days. Has anyone else got memories of a job that is no longer about??

[andy-hughes]

I think sagger makers' bottom knockers are on the way out, if not actually gone yet.

[evadora]

Had to look that one up Andy !!

[jno]

not a lot of knocker-uppers left since alarm clocks were invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up

[tiggerblue10]

You are from my neck of the woods, Evadora. The 109 was my route to Croydon from Norbury for years.

My uncle drove the 59 bus from Streatham Common to Purley in the 70s/80s if I remember that rightly.

[-SharonA-]

Evadora I caught the number 68 often as I lived yards from Euston station to travel to Camden Town.

[evadora]

I was on the buses late 70's early 80' tigger.
Sharon If you caught the bus in the 70's/80's, I could have been the conductor!!

[Atheist]

Lamp lighters, rag and bone men, coal men, pitmen, women in the cotton mills.

[tamborine]

PA/Secretarial took 3y training for top post & excellent salary. All replaced by IT making the career redundant.

I was the only one years ago, on answerbank able to decipher a shorthand note that a wife left to her husband - cant be bad ;)

[Smowball]

My in-laws live in Purley so might have caught one of the buses lol. I live just outside Croydon(New Addington) and bit young for catching buses in 60’s and )70’s but again they might have lol.

[evadora]

Smowball - I lived in New Addington from 1973 to 1982. My husband was born in New Addington (Comport Green).

[Smowball]

Omg really?? Dare I ask whereabouts??

[evadora]

The Lindens, Fieldway then Aldrich Crecent up near the parade.

[Smowball]

Oh how funny, just a couple of minutes walk from me lol.

[EdmundD]

Switch board operator
Signalman

[evadora]

What road do you live in smowball?

[Smowball]

Castle Hill Ave, right by roundabout where Lidl is x

[douglas9401]

Hmmm, I don't suppose you fancy giving your PIN out to all and sundry too?
Car reg would help too.

[barry1010]

Still have rag and bone men (tatters) and coalmen where I live.

Park keepers - never see that chap in the uniform stopping the kids getting up to mischief anymore, not in bog standard parks anyway.

[evadora]

I know where y








Smowball - I know where you are. I have not been to New Addington for over 20 years, so no idea about Lidls. My husbands daughter lives in Dunley Drive but have not been to her house. My sisters went to Castle Hill School and I went to Overbury (now demolished) and then John Newnham. My house in The Lindens backed onto Castle Hill School playing fields.

[barry1010]

Lighthouse keeper - always fancied that job.