Don't
forget! The surnames are first.
This last section of local tradesmen
from Pigot's Directory shows local
skilled crafts which are no longer as important as they were in Victorian
times
.
The turner
was really a wood turner who made table and chair legs on his lathe. This
was a very skilled job, and thousands of chairs and tables and desks of
this period can still be seen today.
The Victorian turner would power his lathe
with his foot pressing down on a lever which turned the wood.
When he lifted his foot off the lever the wood spun the other way.
