Jobs that no longer exist

I have shoes repaired! And I'm looking for a clock repairer, in fact I think I've found one.

Clogger.
Does anyone have shoes repaired nowadays?

Rosesarered, there used to be a clock repairer in Gillygate, York.
I used to like going in there just to hear them all ticking away. Always went there for my battery to be changed.

And the ones that did invisible mending, very effectively.

Those ladies who sat in the window of your local dry cleaners mending stockings.

feetlebum comptometers were indeed adding machines, you needed to know your decimals in order to work them, and they were a boon when working out the overtime to the last 'dot'. Highly paid by the then going rates - they could work our how many pennies, shillings, etc., needed for the wage packets (or at least that is how I remember them). Linotype operators do still exist, but only in the 'historical' sense, they are not needed now for commercial work as such, although give a better result than computers! (or so I am told by the fanatics who work them at Amberley Museum).

clock makers and clock repairs [and watches.]
park attendant [complete with a litter picking stick.]
toilet attendant [wash and brush up, sixpence!]
miners! [nobody works deep underground any more, thank goodness.]

Punch card operators (Hollerith) in the days when a computer took up a huge air conditioned room to do probably less than my kindle does now.

Accounting machine operators

Manual payroll which included going to the post office to buy national insurance stamps and working out the exact coinage for the wage packets.

Comptometer operators - they were always advertising for them in the fifties... I've no idea what a Comptometer was - presumably some kind of adding machine. Linotype operators, from the days of 'hot metal' on the newspapers...

Copy typists.

Understand Jendurham, Just loved the word Nit Nurse.

Mrs Mopp, when they introduced the bendy buses in York, they had to put bus conductors back on them as it was taking so long for passengers to use the machines the buses were always late.
Is that still the case, anyone who lives in York?

Nit nurses are still around, Flower. It's just that they do other jobs as well, or in modern jargon, have diversified.

Petrol Pump Attendant who used to check the engine oil level by the dipstick.

Milk monitor (although not really a job)

Nit Nurse

Remember the "School Board Man"?He used to visit parents if the kids happened to have played truant.
We (as kids) were all scared stiff of him.A right bogie man.

My mother was a state enrolled nurse. She retired in 1982, so they were still around then. They probably disappeared when cardboard bedpans came in and there were no more sluices for them to use.

Mrs Mopp - The disappearance of the wheeltapper must have put a lot of wheeltappers' listeners out of work...

My ex SIL was a company telephonist 40 years ago in the days when long distance calls were not routine and had to be arranged by an assistant and every workplace had a tannoy.
Just before she left to have her first baby she announced on the tannoy: "Mr Smith I have cooked your balls"

Worked in what was Westminster Bank in the early sixties and remember one job was to type standing orders on a daily basis and man the dolly eye switchboard during the operators lunchtime. My o.h's grandfather was a wheelwright over 100 years ago - my dad was a French polisher. And I have my mum's darning dolly!

Thanks feetle- been racking my brains but couldn't remember!

MrsMopp - Phonotas - the girls in brown who 'sanitised' your office blower.

I think they expired in around 2007/8.

Tiggy, the Banda machine, used to be downstairs and through the factory, loved walking through the factory (all those apprentices) We had two Banda machines, the chap who worked there all of the time once let out a choking gurgling sound, I looked across to see his tie trapped in the rollers. I jumped up quickly and switched the machine off, cut the tie free with a pair of scissors. He was more concerned about the tie than the fact that he had almost died. He normally worked there alone.

Tea ladies - another endangered species? I've never come across one in any of the offices I worked in.

Too right, BAnanas. I miss my interval ice cream and loathe the smell of popcorn.