Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1874/153
Title
Receipt for Ironwork to Student Rooms
Date(s)
- 1st January 1877 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper, in envelope.
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 ironworks carried out in student rooms between December 1875 and September 1876. Total cost of works £14.10, signed off by William Thomas Coleman. Specific work includes:
- Plate rivits (H.W. Wilson)
- Fixing back screws. (Hockin and Champion)
- Fix hook and [?] bottom (Hockin and Champion)
- Fixing new back screws to stove (Jennings, Champion, L2, L5, L6, F3)
- Register stoves in K2, L9, L3, L4.
- Fixing new cheeks and back hooks in L7.
- Fixing new hob in L8.
- Fixing wall hooks to side of stove in L6.
- New slip and bearing bar.
- Pins to fix bars to stove.