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- 12th December 1838 (Creation)
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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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Paid £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.