housebreaker.jpgthis made me laugh talk about being honest ? or a mistranscription more like.
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There is a thread on the Great War Forum about housebreaker being an occupation.
Someone has given the following description: A housebreaker used to be someone who worked with bailiffs taking roofs. doors and windows off houses and cottages where the occupants were being dispossessed. Not exactly modern reclaimers but they were sometimes called this as they were reclaiming the property back for the landlord
Source: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/fo...owtopic=194301Elaine
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The word "demolition", or something similar, would have helped!
The site with that card is certainly a find.
ChristineLast edited by Christine in Herts; 17-08-13, 21:48.Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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they brought them back a few times see below
Black Cat cigarettes were first introduced in the United Kingdom by Carreras Ltd. in 1904. The brand was named for a black cat that consistently used to sleep in the window of Carreras' Wardour Street shop; its appearance was so regular, that passersby used to refer to the business as 'the black cat shop'. The Black Cat brand was a pacesetter in the British tobacco market. Besides being among the first machine-made cigarettes to be sold, it was also a pioneering coupon brand. The brand hit its peak in the 1920s, and although cigarette coupons came to an end in Britian in 1934, it still continued to include collectable cigarette cards. Black Cats were withdrawn from sale during the Second World War. They briefly were brought back in 1957, but due to customer demand for filtered cigarettes, it disappeared from the market a couple of years later. They were brought back one more time, this time with a filter tip, beginning in 1976, and Black Cats continued to be sold in Britain until 1993.
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