Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1875/4
Title
Ironworks Receipt
Date(s)
- 28th December 1875 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper, folded.
Context area
Name of creator
(1839-1875)
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.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Receipt for repairs to iron work carried out in college between February 1874 and October 1875, at a total cost of £51 16s 11d.
Works include:
- Master's Lodge: new hot plate; repairs to servants' door and frame (including 4 holdfasts); furnace bars; lengthening skirting round furnace; nails.
- Courts: open lock and key to court seal press; new long straps; screw bolts; take up fence and mend long rods, drill holes, and fix wedging; new band for chimney in Ball's House; 2 new tubes with hoods for houses in stable yard; take down guttering and piping, painting and refixing; dismantle, cement, and refix range with screws and new bars; 2 angular plates, 12 screws for ladder on roof; iron caps with wire tops; cutting bars off front iron gates, halving them down, and fixing new bars; new wrought iron ladder for lawn mower; hooks; mending 3 pitching irons, screwing hoops and fixing hooks to gas pipe; cleaning and mending locks on gates and to lecture room; repairing padlock on library door; soldering and mending pipes and guttering in houses in Close.
- Buttery: corkscrews; tea kettle, tea pot, key to cellar door; beer cans; japanned beer cans.
- Chapel: nuts, bolts, and nails for gate next to chapel; cord and brass hook for windows; new tops for candlesticks; dismantling, cleaning, and mending grill stove (including bots, rivets, iron plate, nuts, screws); new furnace bars.
- Hall: taking up door spring, new steel roller, pivot, and brass bushes, repairing and fixing; taking hinges off door (oil, new strap hinge with shifting pin and lever).
- Clock: annual winding and oiling.
- Kitchen: pans, shovels; mend chopper and grinding machine; new clamp for mincing machine; taking up and refixing plaster for sweeps; oiling jack; mend latch on furnace door; 2 bottoms and 2 rings; new pan for hot plate; knob to slide door; blade to marking iron; wrought iron bars for scullery; clean and mend drip pan stands; new end to range bar; new scuffler and pole to oven.