# Garden shears

> Kept the allotment hedge level from 1949.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/shears/

- Made by: Unknown maker, Sheffield
- Date: About 1930
- Material: Steel, ash
- Size: 58 cm long
- Cost new: Five shillings
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: In store

Used on the allotment at Crookes that the family kept from 1949, where the runner beans in the kitchen gallery were saved from. The blades have been ground back on the works’ own stones so often they no longer quite meet at the tip.

These are in store; the library of things lends the spare pair, which meet perfectly.