Does anybody know what a boot clicker was?
My family tree is full of boot makers, boot finishers, boot manufacturers, boot sewing machine workers ... and boot clickers.
It SEEMS to be the occupation of the youngsters just starting the trade, in the days after the transition from boot makers with apprentices to boot manufacturers with factories ... but what actually WAS a boot clicker? What did he DO???
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Thread: Boot Clickers
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01-04-2013, 9:47 AM #1Jeremy BurrowsGuest
Boot Clickers
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01-04-2013, 9:49 AM #2malcolm99Guest
Have a look on here>
https://www.
familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-Index.html
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01-04-2013, 9:57 AM #3Jeremy BurrowsGuest
Ooooh - wonderful. Thank you. Now I know.
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01-04-2013, 10:30 AM #4
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Clicker
cutter; cuts out parts of uppers of boots and shows, either by hand using a brass-bound template which he places on leather and cuts round with a knife; or by operating a power press which descends upon pattern placed on the leather and presses out shape required.Source: Dictionary of Occupational Terms, Ministry of Labour, London 1927. I would recommend trying to get hold of a copy of this.
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