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MARIA LUCKING
27-02-2005, 03:42 PM
Does any one out here know what a Butty Collier was?. I have one in my family .

Jo Simpsons
27-02-2005, 04:01 PM
On http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
It says
Butty, a supplied labourer to mines and negotiaited contracts

Jo :)

malcolm
28-02-2005, 10:48 AM
On http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
It says
Butty, a supplied labourer to mines and negotiaited contracts

Jo :)

Spoil-sport! I was quite happy to envisage it as someone employed in one of Liverpool's famed jam butty mines :-)

[If you don't remember the mines, think of Ken Dodd and his Diddy Men.
You may also recall the broken biscuit repair factory which provided much employment in the area.]

- malcolm.

MARIA LUCKING
01-03-2005, 07:33 PM
Thanks for that, shame about the sandwhich makers though ,

Jo Simpsons
01-03-2005, 08:58 PM
But it would have been funny now :D

Jo :)