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- 7 December 1847 (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 £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.