Jobs you can only hold in London

[Enko]

At dinner tonight we got to discuss if there are any jobs you can ONLY hold in London

So say manager of the Shard doesnt count as you can be a building manager elsewhere

You can be mayor of another city so again doesn't count

We are looking specifically for a job that cannot exist in a slightly different form in another place.

So far we have

Yeomen Warders (beefeaters)

Speaker of the house

Are there others?

Tower bridge opener. I mean you could open bridges in other cities but still it’s probably a fairly unique mechanism

True but we are talking about jobs specific to London and if you’re a groundsman at a London club that’s immovable. It’s London-centric.

Not London but by the nature of the job, limited to a specific city:

Kumari. Nepalese Living Goddess.

I'm clutching at straws here.

You can do most jobs elsewhere and be able to afford a much nicer house than you can in London. Almost everyone I know who lived and worked there after university has moved away for better living standards. It’s still visitable, y’know.

We like that thinking

Whitehall

Wimbledon (?) football team moved to Milton Keynes for a while.
Edit: apparently they stayed there and changed their name to MK Dons.

The Grand Carver of England, whose job is to perfectly slice and serve meat to the Royal Family during banquets and special occasions at Buckingham Palace. There may be many carvers, but there is only one grand carver.

Thames Barrier Duty Controller

There are parliaments in three other cities in the UK.

They did indeed. You can have that one x

We like this one

Gulliver’s

Thesaurus Editor for the UK Houses of Parliament.(Specialist job, not the same as a general thesaurus editor)

I just googled it out of curiosity - the one I went on was called Heights of Abraham.
Very fancy name.

But there are other storm surge barriers in the UK and around the world.

And Hansard reporter as well, which is also a specialist job

They actually do

Yes, but they’d need different local knowledge and not all barriers work in the same way

My favourite fun fact about the Glasgow subway: last Christmas when London Underground had all its posters up about drinking responsibly over the festive period , the Glasgow subway ran a sub-pub crawl, advertising where all the pubs were for each stop. 😆

Cockernee Chimney Sweep.

The person who alters Big Ben when the clocks go forward/back 😁

I love that

There are also Crown Jewels at Edinburgh Castle.

Love it! I suppose one difference is that some people (though definitely not me…) may be able to complete a 15 pint / shot pub crawl.

I don’t think anyone could complete a 272 pint pub crawl!