Jobs that no longer exist

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.

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.

Milk monitor (although not really a job)

Nit Nurse

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

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

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?

Understand Jendurham, Just loved the word Nit Nurse.

Copy typists.

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...

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.

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.]

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).

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

And the ones that did invisible mending, very effectively.

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.

Clogger.
Does anyone have shoes repaired nowadays?

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

There's a Timpson's shoe repairer in our local Asda. Just had my favourite boots heeled and it cost £9.99. That's another year I don't have to shell out a fortune for new ones.

Timpson's on the Kings Road, Chelsea charge £15 for boots to be heeled!

Cobblers!!

Please don't swear!

Just along from Timpsons is a shoe shop called 'R Soles'

We are having terrible trouble finding a chimney sweep locally. Our usual one retired last year and DH, never keen, has decided he is too old to go up on the roof and D-I-H. Unfortunately DGS (6) is tall and chunky but I overheard DH chatting up slimline and supple DGD2 (4) who seemed to be well up for it, wearing her spiderman costume of course. Note to self: Get her a copy of 'The Water Babies' for Christmas.

We have one called 'The Village Cobbler' who always seems to be busy. A strap had come adrift on one of my sandals and he did a beautiful repair.

I have my shoes repaired. Always have the heels on my boots done when
they wear down. I find Timpsons too expensive and have found a little repair shop in a local market that charge me £3.99.