Odd Jobs of the Past

Are you curious about some of the jobs that are no more? Do you know what a fairy tapper did? Or a nightman? How about a scoop boy, a dolly boy, a lumper, a telegraphist or an Inspector of Nuisances?

In this illustrated presentation Margaret Anderson reflects on some of the odd jobs encountered when researching the Old Treasury Building’s latest exhibition ‘Lost Jobs: the Changing World of Work’.