What did your grandparents do work wise?

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Inspired by a previous thread - if you know that is
GM 1 deputy head of my old high school
GF 1 civil servant (fairly high up)
GM 2 bar maid
GF 2 chauffeur

GM - Shopkeeper
GF - Maintenance Man

GF - helicopter mechanic RAF then contractor in Saudi Arabia
GM - worked in Asda

What an interesting thread.

My maternal GF did a bit of everything in his time. His mother had a tobacconist's shop and he worked there, but on his marriage certificate he described himself as a fishmonger. Later he had another shop - papers, sweets and tobacco - then finally he had a garage and ran a bus route. A real jack-of-all-trades (he also served in WW1).
Dgm, his wife, had been a theatre usherette before she married him.

Paternal GF - a carter, ie he drove a cart (with a horse). Not sure about paternal gm but I think she was in domestic service pre-marriage.

I didn’t know any of my grandparents, they'd all died before I came along.

Paternal GPs were a metal worker and an admin lady. Maternal GPs were a draughtsman and a cleaner/cook in a pub.

One GF was deputy in the mines (after getting the DGM in ww1) other worked in aeroplane manufacturing. First GF wife was a sahm the other was a dinner lady

My G grandmother went to prison for a month. She left her husband because he beat her. She took a couple of underskirts and a knife and fork from the marital home. She was charged with theft. I'm v v proud of her

Father’s side:
Grandfather: telephone engineer
Grandmother: sahm

Mother’s side:
Grandfather: Architect
Grandmother: Elocution and Drama teacher

Paternal grandad was a soldier, then a photographer. Never met him.

Maternal nan was a bus driver during the war, then a SAHM to 5 kids, then a divorced single parent (paid maintenance by my grandad).

Maternal grandad was a factory worker, then a soldier for 12 years, then a farm worker, then an insurance agent.

Maternal nan was a telephonist then an office worker.

Maternal Grandparents - Nurse, Mechanic.
Paternal Grandparents - Housewife, Shopkeeper.

Maternal -
GM - nursery nurse, then hotel receptionist in the Carribean, then mental health Social Worker
GF - flying doctor in the Caribbean (army)
StepGF - textiles designer for aerospace company

Paternal
GM - dinner lady/SAHM to 5
GF - long haul lorry driver

Paternal Pilot and SAHM (9 children!)
Maternal Banker and Bankers wife (itself a full time job hostessing)

Housekeeper, accountant, and engineer.

GM 1 - Housewife for many years but was a shop assistant before having kids and again after they'd grown up
GF 1 - Scientist
GM 2 - Housewife, then a secretary after kids had grown up
GF 2 - Factory worker

GD1: worked in steel until his whole factory was made redundant, he then re trained as a social worker
GM1: Nurse

GD2: Truck Driver
Nan: stay at home wife/mum

GM1: civil servant
GD1: salesman

GD2: own floristry business
GM2: payroll for GD's business

GM 1 - tailoress for Burton's/Army during WW2.
GF 1 - baker/Army during WW2.

GM 2 - housewife
GF 2 - Police Sergeant

Grandpa - started as an office boy, became an accountant (in the war he was artillary i think)
Grandma - dont know actually. She was a guide leader though!
Grandad - had a private library, then got a job at the telephone exchange. (was in REME during the war)
Granny - private library and then I think she worked at a shop.

Such an interesting thread!!

Both my GMs were SAHPs in fact I think going back a generation to my GGMs they were SAHPs too.

Maternal GF was a chef in the merchant navy then ran his own betting shop.

Paternal GF was a coal miner as were both GGFs!

On my husbands side again both his GMs were SAHPs and he had one GF who was a docker and another GF who was a steel worker.

My grandad was a ship's captain and my nan worked in a factory and then later in a canteen - everyone who knew her then still rave about her custard slices and jam tarts. I don't know what my dad's parents did as I never knew them.

GF Tailor
GM book-keeper at GF tailoring business
GF(P) chauffeur but died of TB aged 42
GM(P) worked in a laundry

Gd - sold vans and lorries
Gen - housewife

Gd2 - builder’s foreman
Gm2 - housewife

Maternal
GF - Builder's merchant
GM - House wife

Paternal
GF - Insurance
GM - Housewife
Step GM - Librarian until she married GF

Both grandfathers served in the First World War. One was a pilot and still a teenager when the war ended. The other was in the Royal Engineers.

GD1- in the merchant navy as an Officer
GM1 - civil servent

GD2 - sheet metal worker
GM2 - school cook

Maternal grandad was a removal man and 'did things up' for spare cash.

Maternal grandma was a stay at home mum, and very poorly. She died of a heart condition at 36.

Paternal grandad worked on the docks.

Paternal grandma was a stay at home mum, but worked in a munitions factory during the war.

GM1 dinner lady
GF1 labourer

GM2 housewife
GF2 farmer (and a bloody good one at that - bloodlines are still very much sought after)

All farmers. MG made butter to sell and took in laundry.

This is such an interesting thread!

Maternal Grandad is and always has been a pub/cabaret singer. He was in a local band in the 60s when he met my Nanna and has carried on singing since, with some telly jobs here are there.

Maternal grandma was an accountant.

My paternal Grandad made garden gnomes for a living and sold them at market. I used to love going to his house into his workshop upstairs are watching him work the pottery and paint them meticulously.

My paternal grandma was a homemaker, I have a feeling she worked in a textile factory when she was younger but I can't be certain.