Working class clothing?

[Currie]

Thanks Russell,

I was so busy looking for images that I skipped over the index and didn’t see what else was there. It looks pretty interesting and I’ll download the book for future reference.

All the best,
Alan

[littlealison]

Alan, I've only just found out that this thread has woken up again.
I was looking for the 1865 Parliamentary Report last year, having found an extract in a newspaper - thanks, now I can read it!
(I have not been around anywhere for a bit, as I have been ill, but Im rather better now.
By the way, is there a way on this forum to get alerts when anything is added to a thread I've started or posted on?)
Posting on Censuses re my gggrandfather's brothers! - Alison

[SarahND]

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Cheers,
Sarah

[littlealison]

This got transferred too? so I am putting it back here:

"Actually I would still like to have comments on whether my gggrandfather might have worn a 'toorie bunnet' to work in the 1840s..............."

[littlealison]

I've at last found a photograph of Scottish working men in the 1850s online. It's on:

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.ph ... p?id=TGSDE

They work for Robert Napier - but I think this is a pretty good idea of what any workers would wear.
These are foremen. I would guess that the manager would wear a bowler?

[Russell]

HI Alison

They look a scruffy lot don't they By current standards that is. The glasgow Story is a great resource if you can trawl through to find what you need.
I wonder what kind od work the man seated on the right did ? he appears to be minus his right arm. I wonder if he was a Chelsea Pensioner ?
I'm glad you have found an answer to your original question.
Russell

[LesleyB]

Hi littlealison

You were luckly to locate such an early photograph - good find!

Best wishes
Lesley

[littlealison]

Lesley - yes they do look scruffy. My ggrandfather in a very formal photo in 1889 is wearing a very crumpled suit.......with an obviously new wing collar and tie!
- you're right about the arm. But a foreman losing an arm could probably go on at his job?

It's worth googling the photographer 'Duncan Brown (1819-1897)', there are more interesting pics.

[littlealison]

I just found a description of bottlemaker's clothing on:
http://www.east-durham.co.uk/biographys ... l_reed.htm

"I was just as I had been working, just trousers & shirt, no stockings or head covering and only a pair of bottlehouse slippers (usually sea boots cut down to the heel & about half of the uppers cut away)'....

That was at Seaham - but old seaboots would have been easy to get in Ringsend!
And explains how their feet were protected.

[Currie]

You’ve been finding some good stuff Alison.

Have you seen Bottlehouse used to describe a Bottleworks before? It doesn’t seem to crop up very often. It seems also to be used for a place where they bottle beer etc. Maybe it’s a bit local to Durham, although there’s a Bottlehouse Quay at Greenock.

Alan