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- 1st December 1863 (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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Payment 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.