What did your Grandfather do for a living? (3 Viewers)

[Catwoman]

Paternal grandfather had some sort of white-collar job. Insurance or something. Maternal grandfather (and grandmother) worked for a terracotta manufacturer. A clay pipe fell on Grandad's back, breaking it when he was 19. He got about £100 compensation (it would have been more had he not been a minor) and got out of active service during the war. He manned searchlights somewhere in the English midlands. He's 94 this August. His father was a miner and made fireworks as a hobby (which led to him losing a hand). Nan's father was a man of mystery - also a miner, he claimed to go to Canada for work yet there is no record of him in any passenger manifest. His missus had a baby while he was away. He didn't seem to mind and they had a few more kids when he got back from wherever he'd been (prison, I'm guessing).

 

[Lolo]

Da's da ran a bicycle shop on Parliament Street, Ma's da was a stock-checker in the warehouses at the Dublin docks.

I'd already been drinking in the Stag's Head on Dame Lane for about 10 years when my dad told me my grandad went for a pint there every day after work.

 

[egg_]

He fought in the First World War. In 1922 he lost his commission in the British Army after joining a mutiny of Irish in the British Army in India

That's mad, one of my Ma's uncles took part in that too

One of Mrs. egg_'s granddads was killed during a cycle race (the Rás) in 1962