ESSEX-UK-L Archives

Archiver > ESSEX-UK > 2006-09 > 1157679367


From: "Helen Ward" <>
Subject: [Ess] RE; Victorian occupations
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:36:07 +1000
References: <008201c6d09f$ce89c270$8205b8cb@D6VMBD1S><44FECB9B.4020902@yahoo.co.uk><008701c6d26b$1bbd9220$0301a8c0@portable>


Have just found my copy of "Dictionary of Old Trades &Occupations' by Andrew
and Sandra Twining. According to the book,

FIREMAN

A person who fights fires. Also a person who stoked the fire and controlled
the injectors feeding water to the boiler on a steam locomotive. In mining,
a man who kept the fires going for the boilers in a power house or steam
engine.

Am sure there are a lot more definitions of Fireman as well.

Also on the same page is a FLAGELLATOR - Someone who whipped or flogged
people. Don't think you would come across many of them!

Helen.




Jenny wrote.


>I think it might be that a fireman in a colliery was someone who handled
>the
> explosives used to break through the coalface, I seem to recall having
> seen
> something about this occupaton on one of the lists covering Co. Durham.

Steve wrote.

<<> I had a ggggg uncle in County Durham who is described as a Colliery
> Fireman on the 1851. I think for it to be a specific job it was the stoker
> of the boiler. At that time, if there was a fire at the colliery it would
> be, literally, all hands to the pump.>>


This thread: