by Susan Morris | Aug 27, 2021 | Ancestry Research, Genealogy, old occupations
One of the chief interests in researching your ancestors is finding out what they did for a living. But many occupations have changed over the years, and so has the vocabulary. So what exactly was a Sagger Bottom Knocker? a Throstle Doffer? Here, in no... 
by Susan Morris | Jan 27, 2016 | brewery history, drayman, Genealogy, Local History, old occupations
This photograph, found in a junk shop many miles from where it was taken, apparently portrays the draymen of McEwan’s Fountain Brewery, which was founded in 1856 by the brewer-politician William McEwan, donor of Edinburgh University’s magnificently grandiose McEwan...