Paid to Shallow and Coleman £26 12s 7d for iron work in college. Includes payment for:
COURTS
Runners to lamp posts, Chains stapled to bar in Stables, Hook stapled to door, Holdfasts, New lock to gate in coal place, Nails stapled to coal place, Bolts fixed to coal place, Cleaned & repaired lock to outer gate, Hook stapled to outer gate, Large staple fixed in Stable, Lengthened bar to window, Mend lamp posts, Mend shovel, Padlock for door of Chapel, Loop/chain fixed to door of Chapel, Length of spikes on Palisades, Feed to standard of Palisades, Staples to lead beaming, Nail to fix to lead beaming, Stays to bolt to spikes, Cleaned & repaired lock to Privy, Screw fixed plate to Stable Gate, Bay to window, Lead fixed to window, Water butt by posts, Strong copper lamp posts, Sharpened/mend hook, Rub stones, Thinned edging knife and grounded, Cleaned & repaired lock to iron gate - drilled holes, rivets fixed, Ground sythe, Sharpened weed hooks, Drilled holes & fixed back to Range Buttery,
Bars to windows in Cloisters, Taking lock off Buttery & mend, Bolt fixed to Buttery, Lock to Stable and key to Coach house, Manger pins mend rack chains, mend lock hook & staples
COMBINATION ROOM
Screws to curtain pin, Large slop pail, Blackened stove, Cleaned bar to stove, Cleaned irons, Lamps cleaned
CLOCK
One repair winding & oiling
KITCHEN
Range poker with wood handle, Shovel with long handle, Mend beef fork and apple corer, Mend handle to Milk, Oiling Jack, Holdfast to hot plate, Side & bar to stewing stove, Bars to Copper, Making a curl bar, Cutting curl iron plates, Set of ironwork for oven, Fire lamps, Cover tile, Shortened latch copper door, Peal handle, Rails to furnace of oven, Jeakes patent stewing stove, Holes fixed for ladles, Rim to steamer, Rod & chain drilled holes & fixed for grid irons
Paid £7 11s for iron work. Includes: fitting locks, scraper for staircases, cleaning of locks and joints, key cutting, altering of locks, repairing locks, iron chisel, mending of hammers, wedges for the cloister, nails, a wrench, scythes, wall hooks, sharpening axes, a grate for the drain, an iron plate for the side of a ladder, a shovel, a stove, opening the Chapel lock and sharpening.
At the end, £1 12s was deducted, bringing final total to £5 19s. Signed by William Coe
Paid to Shallow and Coleman total £5 15s 4d for:
8th August 1939 - Stove Brackhams room, Pair Cover and 4 holdfasts, Stove in Powels Room, Pair Cover, Pair slips
6th January 1840 - 2 plates to Stove Blake's room, 1 Bar, 2 Holdfasts
14th August 1840 - Stove in Beck's room, Pair cover, Pair Slips, 4 Holdfasts
2 old stoves
Paid £13 13s and 4d for a set of fire irons, stoves, copper coal scoop, cleaning irons, a new stove back
W and J Coe and SonPaid £11 4s 4d for items including: stoves, 2 bars in chimney, iron plate for chimney, fender
W and J Coe and SonPaid to John Vail, Furnishing Ironmonger (general smith, locksmith, bell hanger, brazier, gas fitter, &c.) for repairing the bells in the dining room and sitting room and supplying new strings (£1 5s 6d)
Vail, JohnPaid by Miss Turner (31 Jesus Lane) to A. Macintosh & Sons, Ltd. for repairing valve of cistern and supplying new brass part (7s 6d)
A. Macintosh & Sons LimitedPaid to Wm. Vail and Son (workers in iron, brass, copper, zinc, &c.) for new rim lock with brass bolts on the front door (32 Jesus Lane, 15s 6d)
William Vail & SonIronmonger's bill addressed to Mrs Feilding's account, from R. Underwood, 'General Ironmongery Establishment', on the High Street, Huntingdon. Total payment of 6s for two stone nails. Signed by O. Baines on behalf of R. Underwood. Year not given, presumably 1863 or 1864.
Baines, O.Receipt for 2 iron stays and altering and repairing hot closet, iron work in buttery as per estimate, and work to escutcheon. Total cost £8 14s 6d. Signed off by Edward Beale
Edward Beales & Co.Paid £59 19s 9d to Edward Headly and Son for iron fence around the new square, 1 extra post, 1 iron gate of fixing same, fencing of post Jesus terrace, repairing old fence. Signed Edward Headly and Son
Edward Headly and SonPaid £37 1s 7d for ironwork done around College including payments for:
Master's Lodge - 34 inch stove in butler's pantry, pair of cover and slips and holdfasts to the same.
Courts - mend lamps in staircases, burner to lamp by porter, sharpened to points to pickaxe, staple, nails and fixed to lock stable, mend a key to stable, mend a lock screw and fixed, key to stove in cleaners place, cap, staple screw and fixed the same, spiking and bearings over close gate, men drilling holes, rivets and fixed screw to handle and screw lock porters, check spring and mend bill to the same, mend bolt fix a tumble repaired lock to stable, screws and fixed latch to stable, mend key for porter, new bar to iron gate of close, drilled hole rivets and fixed screw the gate, irons for wall stable, making three pairs of hinges, hooks in plates, bolts on plates, bar on plate, new cock to gate, long plate to a bolt, righted hinges, pointed hinges, strong screws, laid ends to axe sharpened, lengthened bar to gate, loop with cut and collar to gate, loop in plate and screws to gate, stop for gate, chimney bar in harness room, sheet iron and nails by bricklayer, bars and nail to indo in coal place, new key and lock for coal place, elliptic stoves, squares to door frame in stable, wrought grate stable yard, cleaned and repaired lock in stable, key to stable, thumb piece to latch, sharpened weed hooks, strong made wrought iron pushing latch with catch and hasp etc for stables, strong cup staple to gates, 33 inch stove C staircase, pair of covers and holdfasts for the same, thumb latches for saddle house, staples to chaise house, prepared hinges, bars to window, turnbuckle and fixed to window, square for wood sacks, cutting ends off bolts, opened large iron lock next to the Master's Garden and key for the same, standards and bars in harness room, four sheets of tin, tacks for stable, righted four joints opened holes etc, hooks and staples to coach house and altered to spindles and fitting to handles.
Combination Room - blacked stove, cleaned bars, cleaned irons and fender, cleaned large lamps
Buttery - piece fly wire and fixed window, key to a lock, cinder shovel
Clock - a years winding and oiling
Kitchen - plate under oven, bars to oven, right bars to oven, stand for pudding pans, pokers, mending pokers, catch and fixed to oven door, slides to oven, balance skewer, turnbuckle and fixed to case, holdfasts to sideboard, pins to spill racks, handle and foot to blower, pair of joints and fix a duper, laid to pokers, chain to a plug, pair joints and screws to duper, tines to jack poker, bars to stoves, eased doors to copper and hob plate, righted bars and made new bars to the same, to shovels, plates under oven, bars to furnace, plates, rivets and mend oven, taking down jack cleaned used, oiled and fixed, keys to stock lock.
Shallow and ColemanBill from Edward Beales & Co., wholesalers, retailers, ironmongers, iron and brass founders, iron merchants, whitesmiths, and bell hangers, for 1 weighing machine and 2 weights, costing £3 4d. Signed by E. Beales.
Edward Beales & Co.Paid £31 17s 5d for ironwork around the College. Including:
Master's Lodge - lengthened handle and rod to pump, 2 sheet iron sides to range, 8 wall hooks nails and fixed, 6 cut iron plate at back of range, 2 bars to range, 6 bars to copper, plate in front of hot plate and wall hooks.
Courts - Eased latch to Porters Lodge door, bars to window in Beaufort's Room, 4lb lead and fixed the same, mend porters bell, a plate by Carpenter, mending bell, harp 2 screw loops and padlock to Mr. Graham's room, mending shovel by porter, catch screw and fixed servants hall, padlock and fixed loop stable gates, repair front gates, joint to harp of large bar and fixed to front gate, collar to key of front gate, mend poker in porters lodge, hook and staple drilled hole in stone and fixed to passage, mend bolt to front gate, mend lock to porters letter box, repair lock to chapel door, key to iron gate by porter, key to shoe place, job to bolt of large gates, mend porters bell, square and nails for door frame, ground 2 scythes, righted and fixed latch in Bates' room, sharpened 2 weed hooks, iron and fixed to pump spout, band screws for the same, righted stop and step to front gate, door chain and fixed to gate, latch catch and brass and fixed at porters lodge, taking key out of lock, 2 long holdfasts by bursars, screws and fixed to gate, sheet iron nails and fixed the stove at porters lodge, mend lock to front gate, 26 feet pipe to Mr. Percy's stove, bottom of large 2 elbows to the same, 6 irons to the same, taking irons off buttery chimney.
Combination Room - cleaned stove and brass, cleaned irons and fender, taking down lamp cleaned and fixed, blacked stove, cleaned bar to stove.
Hall - 2 men taking down stove, new double flue, part new hood, 1 new front bar, cleaned, repaired and fixed stove.
Clock - lengthened lever to striking part, a year's winding etc
Kitchen - Handle to beef fork, new foot to salamander, oiling jack, mend 2 pokers, socket to large poker, plate rivets and mend drip pan, shovel, laid poker, job to pepper mill, keep to latch oven door, mend latch to copper, new chain to jack, 2 bars, 5 bars to stoves, righted four stoves, righted four sides to stoves, 3 bars to oven, righted oven, 16 fire bricks, 11 bars to coppers, 6 bars to stewing stoves, righted stewing stoves, sheet iron to back of stoves, 8 wall hooks, fire repeller to oven, oiling jack, taking down outside and clean jack, laid poker, 2 new stewing stoves, 12 bars to the same, 2 plates under, 2 new stoves, 12 bars to the same, 2 plates under, 4 new trivets, lined meat screen, 2 fenders to charcoal place, fixed cheek to range (all signed by M. Willis).
Shallow and ColemanAn invoice addressed from Mrs Porcher of 33 Jesus Lane to F W Bell, ironmonger, with charges for an improved kitchener; skirting flue doors; and for man's time and supplies. All totals £8 7s 6d. Signed as settled by Bell 9 April 1862.
Bell, F.W.Receipt for work done to the exterior and fabric of 5 Park Terrace, occupied by the late Prof Willis, by John Vail and Son (General Smiths, Bell Hangers, and Gas Fitters). Work includes: taking off old lime [?] and recovering the veranda with new stout lime [?] fitting the same with clips, wire, and solder, making and fixing fancy edging and fixing the same with stays and new lime [?] pipe to the door, incl. pipe and time; repairing the guttering on stable, outplaces, and back of house with 12ft new 2 inch pipe, 1 length of 2 inch cast down pipe, 1 shoe and [?] the veranda over back door, incl. solder and time; to new kitchens and fixing the same; repairing and rehanging doorbell and the gate bell with new wire, time etc.; repair the iron gate, refixing new lock to the same, incl. time.
Total cost of work £20-18-10. Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe, college architect.
Receipt for repairs and minor works carried out by Edward Beales & Co between April and August 1874. Work includes repairing knife machine (Emery to do), 1 bottle rack, wrought iron frame and doors for wine bin as per estimate, and 2 padlocks for the same. Total cost £25 4s, invoiced to the college's buttery account. Signed off by Edward Beale.
Edward Beales & Co.Bill for 1 "Spamoser" or "Spermoser"(?) bought for 5s.
Edward Headly and SonBill for various items of ironmongery, including: 1 "Patent Hydraulic Machine" and 240 feet of rubber piping (£13 10s); 30 feet pipe (£1 1s 11d); 1 cup of "liming" (8d). Credited to the account was "6 old pipe" (£1) and "curl Leist" (£1 9s 1d). Total amounts to £12 3s 6d.
Edward Headly and SonBill for a number of ironsmiths items between July 13th and August 12th, for £4 17d 0s, paid by C. Deeks to R Mortlock. Items include: nails, mixt clout nails, small fixed clamps, wrought lath nails, West Rose. Goes onto the back. Signed by R Mortlock.
Deeks, CharlesPayment from Mr. C Deeks to Alfred McDraff for work done on Parsonage Farm between March 25th and November 8th, paid £8 1s 3d for: staples, nails, spikes, clamps, chains, hooks, plates, dogs, long belts. Likely an ironsmith's bill.
Deeks, CharlesAccounts for ironwork carried out in Jesus college between November 1879 and October 1880.
Ironwork in college rooms includes: new parts for stove in Geldard's room (17s 6d); lock repairs in Mr Street's room (3s); new key for the Practice Room (3s 6d); registering stoves in No. 4 (£1 16s) and Mr Jacomb's room (£1 18s).
Also for cleaning and repairing brass door locks, new screws, new spindle, and brass handle. in No. 1, D staircase; new doorknobs and spindles for bedroom and repairs to rim lock on gyp room in No. 1, G staircase; repairs to locks on bedroom door in No. 1, K staircase; stove repairs, new iron plates, new backs, new rivets, nuts and screws in No. 1, L staircase; new cheek and backs, screws and nuts in No. 5, L staircase; stove repairs in No.7 in L staircase; stove repairs, 2 chimney bars and 2 slips in No. 11, L staircase. Amount spent on these repairs totalling £4 8s 6d. Also includes repairs to the coalscoop and Combination room (2s 6d).
For the estates: iron bracket for pipe at 127 Fitzroy St. (1s 6d); one range in Dawkins, Little Manor St. (£1 8s 6d); bricklayers' labour (11s 6d); new range at 2 Belmont Place (£1 3s); 5 cast iron posts on Pike's Walk (£4 2s 6d); repairs to posts and fence (£1 8s); 14 1/2 feet iron and zinc pipe at 40 Jesus Lane "by order of Seymour" (13s 6d); (in another hand) Tree protectors (£4 5s). Total for estates' ironwork at £13 13s 6d).
For the courts: latch repairs and fixing the latch to the door of the Porter's Lodge (3s); cleaning and repairing lock on the gates next to Shoeblack's (2s 6d). Total of 5s 6d.
For the Master's Lodge: stove repairs (2s 6d, and 4s 6d); lock repairs (6s); attaching the hot water supply to the range via a galvanised hot water cistern and cover, ballcock and ball, 2 "best" brass cocks, 28 feet of steam pipe with elbows, lead, galvanised chimney, india rubber bolts and labour (total £16 18s 6d- no individual sums given). Also repairs to the gate (4s) and bottom to the range (3s 6d). Total cost of £17 19s.
For the chapel: new key to the chapel door (17s 6d), new door and dead plate and fixing to the chapel stove "by order of Frisby" (18s); new fire stones and repairs to the chapel stove (£2 8s). Total cost of £4 3s 6d.
For the kitchen includes: oiling smoke jack (4s 6d); 2 covers and grates for hot plates (19s 8d); work on the smoke jack, 2 pints of oil, candles and labour (13s); repairs to the oven, sweeping the new socket and links to the chain, repairs to the beef tongs (4s 6d); 1 trap top (2s); repairs to hot plates and smoke jack, new pan and 3 pints of oil, cotton waste, labour (£1 18s); brass bushes, oil and jack repairs (£1 4s 6d); work to smoke jacks, hotplates, brass bushes, irons, 4 pints of oil, 1/2 pint of turps waste, labour (£2 16s 6d); 3 cast iron backs and fixing to the kitchen range (£9 9s); repairs to smoke jack, 2 new arms to fliers, brass bush, oil, waste cloth and labour (£2 4s); 23 feet of wrought iron pipes, 3 connections, 3 tees, 4 elbows, 1 socket, 3 cross pipe, 1 copper furnace door and furnace bars, fixing to the boiler in kitchen and copper in Potato Room (£5 18s); copper tinned inside and tinned iron cover (£3 8s 6d); 1 extra large and strong iron steamer with lid and handles, iron handles "for potatoes" (£3 10s 6d). Total cost £38 6s 8d.
For the New Buildings: new handles and roses to doors (4s); removing gate and repairing hanging irons, refixing and repairing lock and making 2 new keys, for under the arch in New Buildings (£1 18s). Total cost of £2 2s.
Summary of accounts on back page also includes £17 18s 9d for work done to the "Steward's" and £3 7s 3d for the Gardens: these pages are absent in the accounts themselves. Total cost for ironwork in college amounts to £97 9s 4d.
Folded in the accounts is a sheet of rough workings.
Paid £17 3s 10d to Thomas Shallow for work done from October 1828 - November 1829 in Master's Lodge, Courts, Premises, Combination Room, Hall and Kitchen: such as mending Porters' bell, making keys and padlocks, grate for drain, gates, mending hinges, cleaning stove and stovepipe, taking spring off doors to clean and oil, winding clock, mending the handle of a pepper mill, mending spit wheel, etc.
Signed Thomas Shallow and John Willis
in Master's Lodge, Courts
Shallow, ThomasTotal bill £104 9s 7d: £47 6s 1d received as the balance for the College account for work done to 18th October 1815. Signed by Thomas Safford.
Work done in College Kitchen includes: cleaning out jack and oiling; hooks and fixing; mending bars and spits; ship[...] grinding cleaver; mend jack line; bars for range; wrought iron standard; holdfasts for range; chimney bar; hook for chimney; damper and frame; new smoke jack with outside movements; bars to chimney; screwed bolts; old bars new iron; small bars for chimney flue; fixing bars to flue; bars and holdfasts; man's time 1/2 day; bars and holdfasts for range; cart back; pieces of hoop iron; holdfasts for back of range; altering and fixing holdfasts and backs, time 1/2 day; altering spit racks and fitting range; handle to damper; chimney bars for stoves; screwed dogs and plates for chimney; one man 1/2 day in kitchen; pins to spit rack; holdfast to furnice door; new frame to oven; circular bars for top of oven; altering and making old bars for holdfasts; cast plate to oven; band for stoves; making bars of old iron; bars of copper; bars for stoves; new oven; frame; bars for hot plates; double brackets for shelf; double bracket; bar to chimney in servant's room; lengthening of spits; stout jack chain.
Work done in Chapel: new brass nosells and new ; lacquering and fixing up of candlesticks; twelve months looking after the clock and cleaning.
Receipt for work done at Jesus College by order of R. F. Cuthbert. Includes payment for a gate hooks, nails, ringels to staples, rivets, spicks and clenches, drop to staples, spiring latch mended, bolt collars, new spring latch clasp and nails, kitch, drops and eye, pleat and nails to window shutter, staples and chain. Signed by Angel.
Angel, JohnPaid £28 16s 4d to Coe and Company for work done in College. Includes payments for:
Courts - taking of old rim, 1 new rim and fixed to lamp over arch, 2 brackets for gas, new lamp iron pump court and 2 screw bolts for it, 2 bars for window in Willis' garden, drilled holes lead and fixed in Willis' garden, 6 glass lanterns for staircases, 4 scrapers, plate and 2 screws cases, piece of wire and fixed window at Master's Lodge and nails and tacks for it, 3 glass lanterns for staircases, 7 new tops and mend old lanterns, 14 bottom pairs to old lanterns and 14 loops to backs of old lanterns, 3w large tin burners, hooks and man for fixing, mend lock to gate, strong joint nails and fixed to privy, 2 jointed plates for trunk of gas, 8 screws and fixed, an iron drill and hole in stone lead and fixed for lamp, bar for porters lodge, bar for coach gate next to road, eye with met and screw and plate for porters, eye in plate on gate, attend your cross bar to Gate and new harp to the same, staple in plate, a half staple, attend to your staples, 39 strong screws, taking Gate off hinges attend hook plate 4 nails and harying, staple and fix bolt to another gate, shovel, repaired lock to privy with 2 screws, new scythe and hanging, man and boy for cutting off 8 lamp irons, laid pokers in servants hall, plate across stable yard gate 17ft, 2 half staples on plates, 26 strong screws for plates, 2 long head holdfasts gate porters, 4 wedges for hooks of gate, catch for a latch, shaped 3 weed hooks, mend and sharpened spade (spud), 2 lamp irons with scroll work, 2 men for fixing lamp irons, plate and 4 nail for gas, 6 inch old lamp irons.
Combination Room - blacked stove, 2 men taking down lamp, cleaned and fixed, cleaned irons and fender, cleaned stove bars, 2 new loops mend cheek trivets and repaired.
Buttery - 2 bars for chimney, 2 plates to rivets and mend back to the chimney, 1 holdfast, 4 ft 6 inches wire for window.
Hall - cleaned stove
Chapel - cleaned 2 rods for curtains, removed 2 candlesticks.
Clock - 2 new lines, 3 men for fixing new lines, job to clock after rain, a year's winding and oiling clock
Kitchen - joints and screws, holdfasts and nails, 4 lory head holdfasts and nails, taking down jack cleaned repaired and fixed, oil for the jack, laid three pokers, mend a poker, mend 2 trivets and righting 1 trivet, 4 bars for stewing stoves, righting 1 stewing stove and mend poker, chimney bar, 2 screw hooks to hang up the chimney bar, grate for drain, new tines and handle to fork poker, repaired fly and straightened spindle to jack after accident, oiling the jack, cleaned outside movements, 2 men taking down stove and pipe cleaned and fixed, new piece pipe for the stove, 3 bars for copper, holdfast to frame of copper, mend 2 pokers, 8lb bar for bottom of oven, 2 thumb screws righting and oiling oven and pointed 3 cooks holdfasts, 3w sides to stewing stove 35lbs, righting the stove, laid 2 pokers, shovel, cleaned and oiled outside movements to jack, plate for rivets and mend dripping pan, oiling smoke jack, 2 men taking down jack out of chimney cleaned repaired and fixed, oil for the jack, laid 3 pokers. This section of the receipt is also signed by J. Willis the College cook.
Coe & CompanyReceived of William Hustler Esq, Bursar of Jesus College Cambridge the sum of £16 15s 11d for smith work done and for twelve months looking after the College clock ending at Michaelmas last.
Signed by Thomas Safford.
College kitchen: putting pulleys to rights (rites) for jack and mending; repairing a bar to oven; new bars to holdfasts; new sides for flueing stove; repairing and shortening one side; repairing bars to bottom of the same; laying pokers; clean, prep and fix wind-up jack; square head screws; straightening and setting to rights (rites) range bars; straightening and sharpening spits; new wheel; slicing jack line, putting jack in pulley; new line and fix to wind up jack; new tines to dining forks; large new spoon to shovel; new beef fork. Total: £3 11s 4d.
College chapel: 12 months looking after the College clock and cleaning. £4 14s 6d.
Work done at the College: corner irons, two with spikes; new handle, new pulley, two plates to Paston bell; repairing and sharp(en)ing chisels for masons; a dull for gate piece; repairing and cleaning a lock , new screws and bolts to Grove gate; new bar; holdfasts, 10 long for building; new neck, new pins and top to bucket; rod, new spout hook for Crown yard; new socket, bolt and fix; bucket to Crown yard; altering back bar to gate; new screwed eye, plate, collar and nails to port; 1 man 1/2 day taking hold hinges off gate; new hinge; large screws; rivets; fixing hinge on gate, 1/4 day; new fine plate lock with six keys to stable gates; padlock with five keys; escutcheons to gate; thatch to gate; pair of shoes and screw bolts; iron with hook and fix to lamp ladder. Total £8 10s 1d.
Total £16 15s 11d.
Safford, ThomasIronwork carried out in 1815. Costs include:
In College: shovel for coal place; wall hooks; iron cramps; stove for servants' room; cutting bars out of servants' room window; repaired pump iron new neck and mend spout; holdfasts; repaired lock to Fellow's privy; bars, band, spikes and holdfasts for chimney to servants' hall; bar; padlock with keys; hasp and staples; mending Porters' bell; fender, poker and shovel for servants' hall; repaired lock and new tennant for bolt to Garlic Gate; pin to ball of back gate; taking lock off Garlic Gate, fitting keys, taking bar off, straightening and fixing; stay hook and staples for window; mend gate bell; laid end of ax and sharpened other; ground scythe and rubs; repaired lock, and cap staple and screws fixed to privy door; cleaned and mended lock on Fellows' Garden; iron fixed to top of door; mend gate key; bright squares and screws for dinner tray; iron squares and screws for sashes; mend pickax; fixing streak, band and nails to wheel barrow; plate and screws for sashes; hook and mending scythe for Grove; strong plate, staple and screws for post; hooks, iron plate and nut screw for Grove gate; laid scythe hook for Grove grass; opened iron gate next to privy.
In Chapel: pair of XX; wall hooks for water pipes.
In Lodge: grate for drane by Coach House; large brass cock for lead cistern.
For Libra: iron squares and screws for shelves.
For Plate Chest: ironwork, screws and padlocks for strong chest.
For XX's house: irons for water spouts and long holdfasts.
Total £11 13s 11d received 19th April. Signed by William J. Coe.
From the Revd Prof Corrie to Shallow and Coleman. Ironwork done on the following: courts and outside, hall, chapel, buttery, combination room, clock and kitchen. Items billed for the courts and outside include: nuts, screws, & fixed staple to bar of gate stable; cleaned & repaired lock to ditto; mended gas lamp gateway; new joint and mended ditto; opened stable & key to ditto porter; cleaned & repaired lock to back gate; doubled back & fixed to stove harries; plate & screws fixed latch to school; new fall door to register Mr Drake; nails & fastening bar over water closet; key to front gate; cleaned and repaired lock ditto; 2 notched bars over water closet; 100 nails & 2 men fixing ditto 1/2 day each; nails & fastened lamp on stairs; cleaned & repaired lock next Shoe Place; 2 men taking down spiking off wall next water closet length 4 standards & making higher; 4 bars with 48 spikes under ditto; 4 screw bolt; 2 men fixing ditto; padlock; hasp 2 staples fixed coals; new bridge & repair lock back gate next Cinder Place; cleaned & repaired 3 locks to front gate; oiled & eased other bolts stocks; mended gas key porter; joint & mend lamp; hook to plate of gate nails fixed; eased & oiled gas tap; wynch to ditto; eased taps & c to 3 gas lamps; alt' bar & add' 3 cross spikes Lowthers; key to gas; lead; repaired lock letter box; 2 collars to raise Master's gate; 1 collar & fixed gate hook; eased tap to gas; repaired lock bedroom Porters' Lodge; add' 5 cross spikes to bars Lowthers; 1 Lowe's drain trap Manor St; cleaned & repaired lock to gate next Close; cleaned & repaired outer gate lock ditto ditto; 1 new weed hook & steel to another; cleaning lantern & horn to ditto porters; 2 hooks & nuts & mend stove bottom & fix back Feudall; back & fix Morgan; mend gas lamp; plate screws & fix to cart; 9 hooks & loops & nuts new foot & repaired stove Porters' Lodge; 1 slip to stove; eliptic stove shoe blacks; 2 holdfasts to ditto; strapped staple screws & fixed porters; stapled & latched screws & fixed; 5 teeth and alt' rake to clean stones; sharpen weed hook; sharpen crowbar; double back & fixed to stove Sharp; coal scoop school room; taking off weather vane, cleaned spindles centre for ditto, oiled & fixed; alt' key by Porter; 2 candlesticks school room; 2 men cutting 5 upright 2 cross bars out of window school room; 1 new bar to ditto; cutting fresh holes & fixing ditto; lead for ditto; inner back screws & fixed White; sharpened 2 points; handle to coal hammer; laid 2 points, sharpened 2 ditto; handle to ditto; bow to 1 key & bit to another Porters; mend joint to gas lamp; eased tap to other. Items billed for the hall include: drill holes in lamp; handle to coal shovel; 3 men taking down stove for sweeps; charcoal for flue; springs to carving forks; thumb screw & fix to flue door; thumbscrew & fix to casement; 2 springs, 4tl lead; 1 man fixing; taking down stove, 4 plates, 12 bolts & mend cheeks, 1 new back, 1 set front bars, 16 new bars, repair stove, white, lead & fix ditto; clean & large 3 burner lamps; handle & fix to flue door; 2 baskets charcoal for flue; grate to air flue, ash pan to grate ditto; chain 2 swivels drilled holes & fix to flue; 2 bushels charcoal. Items billed for the chapel include: 2 long ferrules to join brush; new handle; 1h doubters. Items billed for the buttery include: screw spindle & nut to knife cleaner; key to inner door, bolt & repair lock to ditto. Items billed for the combination room include: laid poker, fasten fret & nut to rail 7 tighten bars; clean large lamp 4 burners. Items billed for the clock include: 2 new lines to clock; 2 men 1/2 day stringing & fix ditto, new pulley to clock line; mend lever to striking part of clock, one year's winding clock. Items billed for the kitchen include: mend & fix iron to pole for oven chains, blower to stove larder; 1 cast iron milk pan tinned; oiling jack, clean & right 10 skewers; key to patent lock, key to stocks ditto, clean & repair 2 locks; socket & mend range poker, lengthened 2 other ditto, sharpen saw; marking iron, grinding 2 cleavers, key desk & mend a lock; oiling jack, knife steel; new bar to range 21th, right 3 ditto, end & mend spit rack & fix; bottom 21th, oiling jack; 4 bars to copper 24th, right 9 ditto, piece cast plate; taking down jack cleaning repairing & oiling; 13 bars to copper 60th; shovel long handle, pan to 1 ditto, laid poker, laid 1 ditto larder; bottom 22th. Amount billed totals: £34 6s 0d. Signed by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanReceipt for work done at Jesus College by order of R. F. Cuthbert. Includes payment for a new lock and key, 2 pairs of hooks and hinges, 2lb of nails and gate irons done up. Signed George Eldred.
Eldred, George (active 1862)Paid £29 18s 2d to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork in College. Includes payments for:
Hall - lined coal scoop, mend poker, new standards two bars and spikes, cleaned stove, cleaned two fenders, two men for taking down stove, taking stove to pieces, new cheeks to stove, two new inner backs, part new outer back, new set front bars, new rivets to other bars, two sets of furnace bars, sheet new and mend cases, 16 pins and nuts, 8 screws and nuts and repairs, three men each for fixing and cleaning stove, taking down cleaning and fixing 6 lamps, shovel.
Masters Lodge - Righted rack and fixed cheek to range, mortice catch on cloister door, key to front gate, cleaned and repaired locks, taking up hot plate and taking off rim righted hot plate six rivets and fixed, a plate 3 rivets and fixed, plate to end of hot plate, righted furnace bars to hot plate, cap staple and fix, four bars to chimney, screw belt and plate to beam bedroom, three square head bolts, man sawing off bolt and cutting nut, hook fastened another and fitting spit racks, straps and nails.
Courts - Taking off Gate, pair of joints, porters bell, wire and repaired bell to outer gate, mend Dutch hoe, mend shovel, repair lock to shoe place, key to stable by groom, laid raker porter, repaired gutter in stable yard, spring cleaned and repaired lock to cloister, cleaned and repaired lock to front gate, made cap staple secure and fixed to front gate, double back and fixed to stove Baddelys room, four screw bolts, two braces and eight screws to barrow, double backed and fixed Kidays Room, plates and clasps for snow shovel, gudgeons to barrow, rivets to standards in the stable, latch screw to Master's stables, fixed tumbler to case to stiarcase, 1lb of holdfasts to stables, hooks, bolts and screws to stables, sharpening weed hooks, bolts to ladder, mend lock to wicket gate, tree hooks for ivy, puce spiking and two bearings, drilled hole in spiking, sheet iron partitions to coal bins, chimney bar.
Buttery - new tap to range, laid poker, opened padlock to cellar, mending bottle poker, iron fixed for roller for towel, new lock two tumblers, 4 keys and fixed door.
Combination Room - screw to lamp, tumbler and repaired mortice lock, lay and mend poker, opened door, inner back to stove, cleaned stove and fender, mend curtain pin, taking down lamp and cleaned, paid two men for fixing lamp.
Chapel - cleaned candle sockets
Clock - for winding and attending
Kitchen - oiling jack, laid and lengthen poker, right and straighten spit, bottom to stove, eye to casement, altered jack chains, mend lock to door, collars and raised doors, bars to stove, holdfasts, righted bars to copper, nails and fixed door, screws and fixed stove in larder, thumb screw to trough of gridiron.
Shallow and ColemanPaid £2 9s 11½d to John Angel for ironwork done at Hundon. Includes payments for pleats, bolts mended, catch (kitch), rivets, nails, drop, staples, clasp, sat door irons, screws and bolts, hooks laid, nuts screws cut, collars, hingles, screw bolts, harsps, dog altered, holdfasts altered, spigines, catch to gate, spring latch mended, hooks altered. Signed by Angel.
Angel, John£11 1s 11d for ironwork done in college and courts.
Willis, JohnBill for ironwork 1813-14, £4 7s 1d. Costs include:
Mend candlestick in Chapel; cleaned 2 rods in Chapel; slate for buttery; laid buttery poker; band for pound gate; opening iron gate mend chain and lock (by Mr Caldwell's order); repaired lock to bar of gate; 2 new keys to buttery door; repaired and altered lock to buttery door; new pullback to buttery door; 3 screw bolts to Masters' pump and tapped at both ends; 6 hooks over gate; cleaned lock Fellows' privy; mend Porters bell; 6 Rubs (by Gardener); scythe (by Porter); sharpened 2 weed hooks; plate and staple for spring of Hall door (by Avenly); hook 24 inches 2 staples to Hall door; mend 2 weed hooks (by Porter); repaired lock to gate in grove; repaired lock to buttery (by Brett); sharpened 2 weed hooks; new wings to an axe, 1 hook for gate of Masters Pound; 1 staple repaired; altered strap for head of gate; 1 new strong latch and keep; 30 nails; hook and staple to Masters Pound gate; [...] irons to gate of Pound;.
For ironwork at Combination and Hall:
Laid poker (by Catley); mend Combination poker; clean and repair 2 door locks; repaired outer lock; cleaned 3 locks 1 spring and 1 screw; 3 sets janey nobs and spindles to locks; cleaning 3 finger plates; cleaned 4 handles and escutcheons to shutter hatches; cleaned bell handle; screws, pins and fixing locks and finger plates; blacking stone.
Signed by William Coe.
Bill from Coe and Company to Revd Dr French for ironwork in Jesus College from 9 Oct 1929 to 29 Sep 1830. Includes lock repair, installation of new hooks, installation of new latches, the grinding axes, scythes and choppers, installation of door springs along with a variety of other ironwork maintenance. Total of £10 15s 6d.
Receipt of payment from Revd Dr French to Coe and Company for £10 15s 6d. Signed by Thomas Shallon.
Coe & CompanyInvoice for ironwork.
November 18th 1858: Open rusted padlocks to Gate.
4th December 1858: Coal scoops, porters.
January 1859: Cleaned and repaired lock on gate next to close. Bill for key of above. Repaired latch and screws, and bell, Porters lodge. 4 gas lamps. 3 bars to mend bottom hook and to fix cheek of stove. Lock for front gate of stable yard.
February 1859: 3 holdfasts for stove, porters' house. Taking off, cleaning, and refitting 8 locks, bolts and fixing screws to doors and gates at stable yard. Mending latch on Close Gate, 2 screw bolts and fixed hinges to Wood Yard, Hinge screws refixed to Gate. 5 holdfasts and nails for gate. 3 holdfasts for levers affixed to door frame to Water Closet, mend bolt to back doors, cleaning and refitting lock for front door Gardens.
March 1859: Repair bell to porters lodge. New flaps and fixed bracket to joinings.
28th April 1859: Cut piece out of iron post. Fix Kitchen door.
4th May 1859: Gas lamp.
July 1859: Shorten bucket rod, stable yard. Repaired and refixed lock turret. Chain and staple for ladders. Padlock for above. Double back and bottom for stove. 2 holdfasts to stove.
August 1859: Dutch door and handle, porters. Cleaning and mending 2 lamps, porters.
September 1859: Drain trap near pump in Court. 2 air bricks above Black's.
November 1859: a stay, hook, and 2 bolts, 2 men boring wall and fixing above.
Hall:
November 1858: Thumb lever for flue door, 2 rivets fixed to flue door, 2 rivets fixed joint to above. Coal scoops.
December 1858: Ring key for stove. Poker for stove. Cleaned stove. 2 sets bars for stove.
January 1859: a shovel for stove, grinding 2 carvers, grinding 8 carvers, taking up door and spring cleaning, fresh fix bottom pivot and fix the soil. Clean foil pullies and dinner bell. Bushel of charcoal.
March 1859: 4 springs for carving forks, bushel of charcoal, grinding carver, 2 guards for forks, spring for carving fork, top pivot for Hall door and making it shut.
May 14th 1859: knife steel.
August 17th 1859: clean stove, clean 2 fenders, taking down lamps, cleaning them, 2 pieces for burners and mend bottoms.
Combination room:
November 1858: taking down lamps. 2 locks and 2 key for Mr Rowe. Laid a poker.
January 1859: cleaning lock.
14th July 1859: mend copper kettle.
Chapel:
November 1858: 2 lengths 4 inch. rain water pipe. 10 long nails for above. Taking down gutter and fixing above.
December 1858: 1 length 4 inch pipe.
January 1859: replacing 28 feet of old gutter. New joints for above. 4 1/2 foot of pipe. 3 elbows. Making angle of gutters. Flanges and nozzle for piece. 13 brackets, 2 lengths 3 inch iron pipes, 1 angle head, 1 shoe for above, 33 strong levers, man 1 day fixing, painting above. End to poker.
March 1859: Man cutting bars out of window. Casement and frame for above. 6 yards lime/line book and fix.
May 1859: padlock, 2 keys to lower doors. Clasps, staples. Taking down stove, pipe for above, cleaning and refitting.
Buttery:
February 1859: cleaning and repairing lock to door, laid poker.
May 19th 1859: Cleaning lock.
October 26th 1859: Patent lock.
Clock: one years winding and toiling.
Kitchen:
November 1858: a cleaver, grinding 2 cleavers, sharpen a saw.
December 1858: grinding cleaver, steak tongs, righted balance skewer.
January 1859: steak tongs, oiling jack, bottom to plate, new furnace face, grinding cleaver.
February 1859: sharpened set of saws.
March 1859: sharpened and mended shovel. End to poker.
April 1859: Grinding 2 choppers. Oiling jack.
May 1859: bottom 22lb, repairing steak tongs.
25th June 1859: oiling jack, hook 1 lever, and fix to lever.
August 1859: 4 bars to range chimney, taking down jack and cleaning it. fixing cover plate and bottom plate. 5 furnace bars of copper. 4 bearing bars.
November 1859: fork for steaks.
Note confirming receipt of payment.
Shallow and ColemanInvoice from Coe & Company to Jesus College for ironwork done around the college from Oct 22 1831 to Oct 6 1832. Includes taking hinges off gates, repairing locks, installing bearing bars, installing padlocks, installing new gates, ironwork done to kitchen. Total of £12 8s 4d.
Receipt received of the REed Dr French the sum of £12 8s 4d as per bill annexed for Coe & Company. Signed Thomas Shallow.
Coe & CompanyInvoice for ironwork done by Coe & Company from February 23 1831 to September 7 1831. Includes ironwork repairs in Master's Lodge (mending latches, locks and screws) the Courts (mending gates, screws, hooks, scythes, mending chapel bell), the Combination Room (mending lamps, bell), the Hall (installation of door stumps, hooks, stove cleaned), giving the clock one year's winding and oiling, the Kitchen (mending oven, installation of door latches, mending locks, mending pincers, sharpened saw, descending stove for ladder).
Received December 7th 1831 of the Rev Dr French, the sum of £27 1s 1d. Signed Coe & Company & Thomas Shallow.
Coe & CompanyReceipt from Jesus College to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork done on various different areas of college, including the courts; student rooms; the combination room; the hall; estates; the chapel; the clock and the kitchen, from November 1861 to October 1862. All totals £44 14s 5d. Signed 5 December 1862 by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanReceipt for: square rails for fence on Manor Street; inking down gutter soldering, 18 ft of line pipe, 1 bracket, 3 hooks (all for Manor Street); inking down gate on Malcolm Street, new screw centre refixed standard and rehanging gate in Malcolm Street; 2 hinges, 16 screws, 2 new hooks (all for Malcolm Street); 17 ft of line gutter, 10 feet of pipe, 8 brackets of hooks, new piping. Total cost £3 3s. Received by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanBill for:
6 hooks and fastened coves (Groyder)
Double back and fixed (Cleverly and A.B. Wilson)
Cleaned, mended, and lacquered two locks (Fairbairn)
10 brass head screws (incl fixing)
Bottom screws and fixed to stove (Chanter)
Double back and fixed (Tucker)
Misc cleaning and mending new locks, fixing screws
New hob; repairing stove.
Total cost £3 1s. Signed by Thomas Shallow.
Receipt for:
- Drilling holes, plate, rivets, fastening bars to stove (Blake)
- New front to latch (Robinson)
- Spring-clean and mend lock and key (Richards)
- Clean and mend brass locks (Sharp, Jameson, G2, G1, A4, B5, B6)
- Clean and mend rim locks (A4, G1, B5, B6)
- Clean and mend drop handles (F1, F2)
- New drop handles (F3, A4)
- Two spindles (F2)
- Screws (and fixing thereof) (F staircase, G1, B5, B6)
- Clean and mend locks (unspecified) (Boys, A3)
- Brass knobs and spindles (A3, G2)
- Cap staples (G1)
- Clean and mend mortice locks and keys (L12)
- Front plate to latch screws (and fixing thereof) (K1)
- Straighten two bars to window (G2)
- New cheeks, hob, double back, pins, and rivets to mend stove. (L12)
- Double back and screws to mend stove (Parish, J.R. Morgan)
- Plate and screws for window (Watson)
- Spring-clean and mend lock in bedroom (Watkins)
Total cost £5 9s 6d. Received by Thomas Shallow.
Bill for ironwork to student's rooms. Total payment of £4 12s. Includes payment for: new tube to chimney at Newberry's; mend hob, screws and stove at Oliver's; 2 holdfasts to Oliver; mending casement's at Mr Westmorland's; screws for Mr Holland and Mr Westmorland; clean and mending 3 mortice locks and 2 brass locks, 4 ebony roses at Foster's; fixing stove and James' and Backhouse's; holdfasts to Coves at Frances'; double and back stove B1; back and fixed B2 and E1; clean and mend 2 locks E1; 8 screws to door E3; clean and mend lock, new spindle and handle, 1 escutcheon, 3 roses and 8 screws to B 2; cleaning brass lock at Pickance's; fixing stove at Wales' and Mr Luckock's. Dated 28th November 1866 and signed by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanBill and receipt for £6 16s 8d for ironwork.
Shallow and ColemanBill for ironwork to done students' rooms, made out to Shallow and Coleman. Total payment of £14 19s 2d. Includes payment for screws, nuts, mending stoves, window fastenings, mending locks, finger plates, brass hooks, for rooms occupied by Hodgson; Bourke and Beard; Walters; Cooper; Mr Morgan; Walter and Larking; Edwards and Smethwick; Harris; Tomkins, Davenport and Beard; Mr Woodhouse; Armstrong; Corfield; Palmer; Oliver; Cuthbert. Dated 1st December 1863 and signed by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow, ThomasBill for ironwork done in the college from late 1863 to autumn of 1864. Total payment of £56 17s 9d. Includes payment for work done to courts: including pitching iron to lamp posts, fixing a French latch opposite the Porters' Lodge, mending bell pole and wind guard, mending gates, doors, locks and lamps around college, forging keys, forging tube, shortening lawn mower chains, mending porter's bell and other bells around college, fixing holdfasts to doors, forging new window bars, fixing stove in Servant's Hall and fixing wire in a window in the buttery. Also includes work to the hall: grinding three carving knives, mending poker, stove and plate warmer, hearth brush, mending door pivots, fixing chain to lamp. And work to chapel: fitting poker end, forging a pair of scones for the ante-chapel, fitting 14 ft pipe and elbows to stove, fitting iron brackets to candle, cleaning pipe and stove, forging candlesticks, curtain rods and hooks, fixing holdfasts, mending key to tower, work to lock. Also one year's winding and oiling of the clock. And work to the kitchen, including: oiling smoke stack, straightening two bar and bar ranges, fitting a top to drain tap in scullery, 2 new bottoms to the hob plate, mending and shortening Jack chains, oiling and cleaning Jack, altered ventilator over hot plate, work to oven door, sharpening saws and grinding cleavers, fixing hook to grid iron, work to door and lock, bracket for shelf, mending boiler, cleaned and righted drip pans, fastened wheel to spit, 2 bars for chimney, 4 pins for spit racks. Includes abstract on the back with breakdown of costs, with student rooms total added and then crossed out. Dated 26th November 1864 and signed by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanPayment of £101 18s 6d to Shallow and Coleman for ironwork. Includes payments for fitting and mending various locks and hinges, oiling gas taps, ironwork for the water closets, mending various gas lamps, mending and providing various fireplace tools, mending porter's bell, a new lawn mower and repairs to others, ironwork to front gates, work to stove in Gardener's House, repairs to gutters in stable yard, mending two pewter measures in the buttery, work to stable gate, repairs to bedstead and water can in Porter's Lodge, fixing iron plates to library door, cleaning Hall and chapel stoves, winding and oiling the college clock, work to various student rooms (including Hodgson, Bourke and Beard, Walters, Edwards, Smithwick, Harris, Tomkins, Arr, Mr. Woodham, Armstrong, Corfield, Palmer, Oliver, Cuthbert, Cooper), work to hot plate, spit, dripping pan stand, grid irons and smoke jack in the kitchen, mouse traps for the kitchen, sharpening saws, cleavers and choppers, and work to courts entrance. Includes payment for staples, iron nails, hinges, screws, plates, hooks, bars. Signed by Thomas Shallow.
Shallow and ColemanBill addressed to Mr. Rowe for Little Manor Street (Moorells [the name of the tenant?]) to Edward Headly, ironworker, totalling £1 13s. Includes payment for one range (oven only) and sheet of iron to make lame. Dated 20th November 1864 and signed by Edward Headly.
Headly, Edward