Item 158 - Ironworker's bill

Bill 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.