General Chat

I have! Its a good job I wasn't around then. I have a feeling I wouldn't want to know my two different great great grandfathers lol

Louise I've got 3 butchers in mine. Don't mind eating meat but blow watching being butchered. Joy

Whole load of miners and potters (what do you expect from the potteries eh :-)) a shoemaker from Belfast and I dont know what the Isle of wight lot did yet :-))

The gamekeeper used to patrol the Welbeck estate in Notts with his gun terrifying everyone and the pig slaughterer was an alcoholic!

Oh whereabouts on the isle of Wight julia?

Hi Louise, no pig slaughterers but ive got a mole catcher - i wouldnt have thought that there would be enough moles to keep somebody in employment !

No, but I do have three generations of carpenters. My Great Grandmother was a toll gate keeper. I think that is quite romantic but I bet she didn't when she had to go and collect the tolls in the rain and snow! Beryl

Oh thats interesting. Have you read up on it Sheila. Exactly how do you catch a mole?

Louise, the Haywards from Cowes, anything to do with you? and I remember Jasper Carrott on the tele going into details about when he had a mole in the garden, had me in stitches :-))

Haven't got any ancestors on here Julia but can look in the phone book if you like!

ive no idea how they caught them - more to the point i wonder what they did with them once they had? please dont anybody say they ate them lol. All the rest of my lot are ag labourers and miners, nothing very interesting.

Sheila Probably skinned them and made Moleskin trousers. No joke. Joy

yuk

My Grandad used to do it on the side when he was young- he said it was awful as they knew when they were to be killed and would scream and desparately try to escape.

Louise Yuk to what? Joy

The trousers Joy xx

Joy, i think that sounds about right but i kinda think maybe they did eat what was left too, especially if you werent that well off. Louise it makes me think yuk too lol

My hubby's mate worked in a slaughter house before he started his own business. I don't know how he coped with it.

Louise Not a very nice idea I agree. I think what we have to remember though is that back then they had very little and so they tended not to waste anything they could use. Most of the thick cloth for Winter was very expensive and if you could get Moleskin trousers in Winter so much the better. They're very warm, apparently. Joy

As long as people and their pets eat meat animals will be slaughtered and their by products used! Just think how much horse meat a domestic doggie and moggie will chomp through in a year.