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- 9th December 1839 (Creation)
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2 items, paper
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Administrative history
Shallow and Colemen was a firm of ironmongers and iron merchants active in Cambridge between 1839 and 1875. The business was owned by Thomas Shallow (1798-1876), an ironmonger and whitesmith who lived at 49 Sidney Street. According to 'Capturing Cambridge', some iron bollards produced by the firm still line the Backs in Queens' Road.
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Bill for supply of metal fittings and parts and repair or installation labour.
Court including Porters' Lodge, gate, stables:
grates, nails, locks, hinges, bolts, staples, screws, latch, hooks, brass over-plates, plates.
Chapel: repaired frame on chapel, took down spindle to mend.
Stables/stall: fixed screws to manger.
Grounds: lengthened and sharpened weed hook.
Gates: padlocks, spikes, pointed gate hooks.
Plates fixed Halliwell's room.
Elliptic stove (for?) Braham's Room.
Pantries: replaced lock.
Back pantry: repairs.
Repair stove Powels room.
Repair stove Porters' room.
Pantries: mend cable (poss. table)
Grounds: 127 feet of spiking on the wall.
Repair stove Powels room.
Repair stove Porters' room.
Grounds: 127 feet of spiking on the wall.
Combination room: blacking stove, .
Clock: new (word unclear??) hoop, 2 pieces of collar to dial. Other repairs winding and oiling
(£5 1s 6d).
Kitchen: steak tongs, mending implements including beef fork, oiling and chains for the jack (roasting spit), vat and equipment for preparing milk, parts for coppers, repaired cooks holdfasts [not clear, but could mean clamps] stewing stove, oven and hob. Either mended or replaced backs and sides of coopers and stewing stove, new back parts and sides to oven. Taking down jack chains [jack can mean a mechanically turned roasting spit]. New handles to side door.
Totals:
Courts £23 10s 11d
Combination Room £1 0s 0d
Clock £5 1s 6d
Kitchen £7 8s 5d
£37 0s 10d
Deduct for use of ??
£33 4s 2d
Total: £33 4s 2d
Receipt addressed to Dr French 9th December 1839