Jack Black was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea, England during the middle of the 19th century. [1] [2] At the time, England was ravaged by a massive population of rats that disrupted crops and spread disease, and Black's rat killing abilities made him a minor celebrity and Queen Victoria's official rat-catcher. Though he has ...

A captured mole. A molecatcher (also called a mowdy-catcher) [citation needed] is a person who traps or kills moles in places where they are considered a nuisance to crops, lawns, sportsfields or gardens.

2023年4月12日 · During the Victorian era, Jack Black was the king of the rat-catchers. The official “rat and mole destroyer to her majesty,” Black got his start doing government work as a young man after...

2021年11月12日 · A gentleman by the name of Jack Black is one of the best examples of a rat catcher who turned to animal breeding to make an additional profit. He was known by the illustrious title of "rat and mole destroyer to her Majesty" or "supreme rat catcher". Black was quite proud of the honor and went to great pains to ensure everyone was aware of it.

2012年6月29日 · Our guide to the enduring oddity of many mid-Victorian occupations is Henry Mayhew, whose monumental four-volume study of London Labour and the London Poor remains one of the classics of working...

2023年12月16日 · Victorian mole-catcher at work These traditional methods continue to be employed against every creature considered a pest and believe it or not that even included house sparrows with campaigns to exterminate them completely.

2017年7月26日 · But the one that has currently caught my attention is that of mole catcher. Now we all know what a mole catcher is – it’s someone who catches moles – but I was keen to find out a bit more about what this entailed in the 1800s.

2021年12月29日 · Here are some of the old jobs with strange sounding names that you may or may be not remember. This image shows the Night Soil Tub men at work during the 1950s a vital job for centuries. Night Soil Men would discreetly remove human waste to be used in fertiliser.

With such new interest in the use of mechanical devices against the mole or was it the new found interest to become known as a molecatcher - and the fact that the 2004 DEFRA review had highlighted requirements and recommendations, it was believed that with the formation of the Guild of British Molecatchers that the points raised, issues ...

Before he left Scotland, he lived in the town of Denholm and was a mole-catcher. His father William Johnstone Renwick (1837-1938) also listed his profession as a mole-catcher. Furthermore, I have traced other Renwick family members in …