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William Pattison from Wall [Fenwick Room]
William Pattison from Wall [Fenwick Room]
William Pattison from Wall
William Pattison comes from nearby Wall but works in Hexham area supporting the Tannery businesses.
He is the night soil man who collects household waste (yes, that waste!).
Urine in particular, is useful for the tanners and Pattison provides them with buckets from his nightly collections.
With rough, strong hands, he brought his handcart to the square. It was not much to look at with splinters, large wooden wheels, spokes and metal around the rim. However, it gave a good viewpoint of what was happening.
William felt himself lonely because of his job which made his clothes, hair and anything he touched smell quite bad.
He has been working since he was 8 years old and has never attended school. When the soldiers handed him the leaflet to join up he was unable to read what it said.
He finds someone not too upset by his smell and keeps a social distance to have the leaflet explained “Join your country’s army” “Three meals a day and see the world.”
Strong smelling and strong acting. Standing on his own in the square with people not wishing to get too close!!
He was at the market doing his job, finishing off his night's work looking for last night's bed pan contents and was not looking to get involved with anyone.
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