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- 24th November 1874 (Creation)
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1 item, paper.
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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.
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Receipt for new iron components for various college buildings, coming to a total cost of £42 15s 5d.
Courts: steel end to key of hydrant; spring wire for Porters' bell; 3 weed hooks; 2 new handles; back and sides of stove in lecture room; new key for the servants' hall cupboard; new lock for back gate; chain links for Lowe's, nos. 3 and 5; chain trap for Lowe's, no.4.
Hall: hooks fixed to windows; 5 swing casements and frames (including 5 bronze hooks and 28 yds of cord).
Buttery: range with oven and boiler (including pipe, holdfasts, and cement); coffee boiler and coffee pot; new boiler (incl. screws and cement)
Chapel: mending door to stove; furnace cleaned; galvanised pail; cleaning and mending lock; new top and mending of 5 candleholders [?]
Kitchen: 2 bottoms, 2 covers, and 2 rings; copper ladle; new key for Chubb's lock, cleaned and refiled; mending dripping pan stand; taking up plates for sweeps and refixing, cleaning, and blackening; oiling jack; coal hammer; handle for punge poker; square 6 screws for shelf; plugging coal and fixing bar shelf; a blower
Clock:one year winding and oiling.