Occupations in the past

Tell me, what was your Parents and Grandparents occupations.

I will start.

My Dad went into the Army as a Desert Rat all over Egypt.
Then went into being a Tailor for Simpsons.
My Mum was also in Simpson making Pockets on Men's Trousers, that's where they first met.

My Nan was just a Housewife.
My Granddad was a Mint Engraver on Coins and Medals.

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On one side Hotelliers

On the other side (which we don't talk about) Peat bog cutters

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Father worked in foundry,

Mother was in service in Harrogate and later a cleaner.

Grandfather i never met, was a lead miner, and also a Methodist Lay preacher

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Father was soldier in the Russian Army then he worked at a Printing Press later on .

Mother was a supervisor on a fruit farm locally for all of her working life.

Grandfather worked on the land....(mothers side)

Grandparents (fathers side) never knew them.

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My Father after the war was a Foreman Joiner.

My Mother worked at a Pin Factory in her early years, but fell ill with a bad heart and had to stop work.

My Grandfather after the war was a Chimney Sweep.

My Grandmother died at 43 years ( I never Knew her )

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My father was an aeronautical engineer (in the RAF during WWII)

My mother had too many jobs to list here, did the dairy on her father's farm (from milking to milk-delivery), library assistant, child-minder, school dinner-lady, bank clerk, accounts clerk ...
(I can't remember them all).

Paternal grandfather was a barrister (I never met him, he died before I was born).

Maternal grandfather was an insurance clerk, then in the Navy (1914-19), farmer, then in the Army (1939-45), then in the Civil Service.

Maternal grandmother was a clerk in the Civil Service, then farmer's wife (which involved quite a lot of farmwork of course in those days), then back to the Civil Service.

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My dad after the army was a long distance lorry driver before buying and running a small corner shop.

My mum worked in Woolworths before they were married then looked after us kids.

Never knew either side grand parents.

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Grandfather: mum's side was an oil refiner.
Grandma: was a seamstress.

Grandfather: printer
Grandma: owned a farm.

Dad: aircraft engineer.
Mum: lawyer.

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My maternal grandparents had a farm in Derbyshire, I don't know much about them they died before I was born and my Mother soon after.

My Father was a very clever man held back by poverty. He worked in the quarry that my Grandad rented cutting and dressing stone then went to night school where he learnt bookkeeping and shorthand. This enabled him to work as a storekeeper for various companies.
My paternal Grandmother was in service as a ladies maid.

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My father wanted to be an opera singer maybe because that was his ticket out of the country. He really did not have the chords to sing, eventually emigrating to America where he became a member of the Gambino family out of New York. Worked the casino racket in Vegas and I did see on some ocassions some of his Italian buddies kiss his ring, so he might of been a head boss for a short time of an Italian Family..Fortunately for him he was never assasinated, living out his years in a beach front home. My mother was the typical Italian wife who cooked, kept her nose out of her husbands life and went to church every Sunday.

Sounds like a Godfather movie, right ? All Italians are either wannabe mobsters or watch way too many Godfather movies