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Many, many, many years ago I worked for a taxi company and we did quite a few funerals. We did not supply the hearse or the first one or two limos but we would do the rest.
In days gone-bye in the North of Scotland you would find that the local joiner would be the Undertaker and Coffin maker.
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Ian what you described sounds like from Canterbury tales or something. 
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The population of Northern Scotland up to the 1970's was around 200,000. The transport infrastructure was poor. The land mass covered was almost half of the whole country. The other half contained around 4.75 million folks.
It was only natural that folks in the north had two or three different "jobs".
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1930's 5 digit telephone number checks out.
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About phone numbers, it really depends on what type of area you live in. When I was quite young, probably in the mid 1950's, we lived for a while in a small NS community called Bear River. There was an oak hand crank wall phone where everything went through the operator. I mostly grew up just outside a town called Liverpool, in NS. I remember our party line that we shared with three other houses. You had to remember your ring tone, I think ours was two longs and a short. Privacy didn't really exist since anyone could, and often did, listen in on your calls. If you had an emergency you had to sometimes interrupt someone else's phone conversation and ask them to get off the line. They usually cooperated. We had a 4 digit number 3573, then a five digit number 4-3573 and then a 7 digit number 354-3573. Now there would be a 10 digit # 902-354-3573. I remember once talking about this to some kids I was teaching. They were especially shocked by two things, the party line and the fact that our one phone was attached to the wall. My antique shop has been closed for several years and near the end I was selling a few of the coloured wall dial phones. One youngish girl stuck her finger in the hole in the dial and had no idea what to do next.
You also need to know now that many younger people have no idea how to tell time from a non-digital clock!! I also remember trying to explain to students that I had an outside toilet when I was at home and it was still in operation when I moved out to go to University in 1970. That was very common in my area. Excuse the long rant, sometimes I don't know when to stop. I could also talk for hours about the total lack of education in today's schools, but I won't!!
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Joe, when we moved up to the "country" 1949 our neighbors were two single brothers who never married because the money might go out of the family...of course it eventually did anyway. But they had the cool furniture style telephone like in the cowboy movies. We had a permanent two holer outhouse attached to the garage for emergency use...we had a 12 room farmhouse and it was full of parents, kids, grandparents and an uncle and one bathroom. I never knew who mucked the outhouse out..that was one dirty job they did not give me.
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"I never knew who mucked the outhouse out..that was one dirty job they did not give me."
I won't dwell on this but my mother used to throw lye, real bad stuff, down our two holer on a regular basis but when it was too full for that to "do the trick" she'd phone someone who came around with shovels, barrels and a half ton truck - a nasty job but I guess someone had to do it!!!
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Found this when going through some older covers...it may be a blotter.
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re: "stiffener" found in 1930s First Day Cover
Many, many, many years ago I worked for a taxi company and we did quite a few funerals. We did not supply the hearse or the first one or two limos but we would do the rest.
In days gone-bye in the North of Scotland you would find that the local joiner would be the Undertaker and Coffin maker.
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Ian what you described sounds like from Canterbury tales or something.
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The population of Northern Scotland up to the 1970's was around 200,000. The transport infrastructure was poor. The land mass covered was almost half of the whole country. The other half contained around 4.75 million folks.
It was only natural that folks in the north had two or three different "jobs".
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1930's 5 digit telephone number checks out.
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re: "stiffener" found in 1930s First Day Cover
About phone numbers, it really depends on what type of area you live in. When I was quite young, probably in the mid 1950's, we lived for a while in a small NS community called Bear River. There was an oak hand crank wall phone where everything went through the operator. I mostly grew up just outside a town called Liverpool, in NS. I remember our party line that we shared with three other houses. You had to remember your ring tone, I think ours was two longs and a short. Privacy didn't really exist since anyone could, and often did, listen in on your calls. If you had an emergency you had to sometimes interrupt someone else's phone conversation and ask them to get off the line. They usually cooperated. We had a 4 digit number 3573, then a five digit number 4-3573 and then a 7 digit number 354-3573. Now there would be a 10 digit # 902-354-3573. I remember once talking about this to some kids I was teaching. They were especially shocked by two things, the party line and the fact that our one phone was attached to the wall. My antique shop has been closed for several years and near the end I was selling a few of the coloured wall dial phones. One youngish girl stuck her finger in the hole in the dial and had no idea what to do next.
You also need to know now that many younger people have no idea how to tell time from a non-digital clock!! I also remember trying to explain to students that I had an outside toilet when I was at home and it was still in operation when I moved out to go to University in 1970. That was very common in my area. Excuse the long rant, sometimes I don't know when to stop. I could also talk for hours about the total lack of education in today's schools, but I won't!!
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Joe, when we moved up to the "country" 1949 our neighbors were two single brothers who never married because the money might go out of the family...of course it eventually did anyway. But they had the cool furniture style telephone like in the cowboy movies. We had a permanent two holer outhouse attached to the garage for emergency use...we had a 12 room farmhouse and it was full of parents, kids, grandparents and an uncle and one bathroom. I never knew who mucked the outhouse out..that was one dirty job they did not give me.
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"I never knew who mucked the outhouse out..that was one dirty job they did not give me."
I won't dwell on this but my mother used to throw lye, real bad stuff, down our two holer on a regular basis but when it was too full for that to "do the trick" she'd phone someone who came around with shovels, barrels and a half ton truck - a nasty job but I guess someone had to do it!!!
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