Job Titles That No Longer Exist

Coal Tender on train.
Fire Watcher.
Breadman and Milkman used to deliver different types of bread to our home. The Breadman not only delivered bread, but also carried an assortment of pastries.
Do any villages still have a Town Crier?
 

They aren't exactly jobs, but there are tasks I did in jobs that probably are no longer done. I remember doing a lot of filing of paper into filing cabinets, and putting memos into office 'mailboxes', used a machine (I don't remember the name) that I'd type a message and it would extrude a long slip of paper with holes punched thru, and then I'd use the paper to send a message to suppliers or customers overseas. I remember having a temporary job using a Wang machine, I don't even remember what those were now.
 

Okay, I'm confused again. I thought it was the actual Job Title that was the query about which ones were no longer used, such as Mail Man is now Mail Carrier or the like. Or Secretary is now Executive Assistant or the like.
 
hollydolly said:
there are... most of the ones that had their own drapery stores here were swallowed up within the larger department stores...so they have a haberdashery department within the store..however if I go to certain areas of the Uk.. including many parts of London , where there's a majority Indian/Asian community... their haberdashery shops are everywhere, they buy most of their own material to make their clothes..
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One thing I remember from childhood, was going with my mother to the department store. We would visit the floor that sold hats, and there were oh, so many beautiful ladies hats to look at! Stores don't carry them anymore because nobody seems to wear them now.
 
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