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Forgotten Trades of Antiquity
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  • 1. Worker scaling soot-choked flues in Victorian Londontown
  • 2. Maker of fine leather footwear, once a specialist craft
  • 6. Nocturnal guard ensuring town safety before modern policing
  • 9. Copyist of documents, precursor to typists and clerks
  • 11. Medieval scribe painstakingly inscribing manuscripts by hand
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  • 3. Those who extinguished street lamps at dawn’s first light
  • 4. Traveler’s attendant carrying burdens, now obsolete by roads
  • 5. Maker and seller of animal-fat candles for old lamps
  • 7. Illuminator who ignited nocturnal spheres before electricity
  • 8. Old term for those who kept harbour lights in perilous coasts
  • 10. Craftsman of wooden casks, vital for transport of liquids
  • 12. Mender of shoes, a profession slowly eclipsed by mass production
  • 13. Artisan who attaches flights to shafts, essential for archers
  • 14. Manual woodcutter using a two-person saw in timber mills
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