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  • Thread starter The Fallen Angel
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Aye well, better a pint-pulling colliery hurrier than a saggar-maker’s bottom-knocker, tha knaws. ;)
The saggar-maker's bottom-knocker was unknown in Yorkshire, he worked in the Potteries (Stoke on Trent) -
a saggar was the fire-proof baked clay tray that fine porcelain was stood on to be fired in the kiln,
the bottom-knocker was the apprentice whose job was to test that the saggars were solid and wouldn't crack,
by knocking them with a hammer.

Mind, judging by newspaper adverts from them days, there was plenty of work in the Yorkshire mills for
long perchers with experience in greasy pieces.
 
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