Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1874/149
Title
Ironwork to Student Rooms
Date(s)
- 8th December 1875 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper, in envelope with 148 and 150.
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:
- 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.