Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/2/2/9/1875/2
Title
Receipt for Upholstery Repairs
Date(s)
- 23rd November 1875 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
5 items, paper, pinned.
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Administrative history
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Receipt for repairs to upholstery across college, carried out by John Swan and Son between October 1874 and September 1875. Total cost of repairs £15 16s 11d, signed off by N. Gromer.
Work includes:
- Lecture Room: lengthening blinds.
- Combination Room: repairing mahogany chair; beating Turkish carpet; cleaning furniture; new leg on dining table.
- Buttery: new mahogany sandwich tray (including mahogany stand).
- Chapel: 2 crimson baize curtains bound with lace; new binding, 3 iron bars and repairing and rebinding matting.
- Hall: new stretcher, 3 new pins and repairing chair.
- Porters Lodge: repairing elbow chair; preparing and sizing walls (using tin foil where damp), papering walls with varnished oak paper (same in bedroom); new roll blind with cloth; 4 yards line and 2 tassels.
Separate receipt in same bundle for wallpapering and general repairs in both Old and New Building, costing £8 1s 9d, signed on the same date.