In store
Garden shears
Kept the allotment hedge level from 1949.
- 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: ask at the front desk and we’ll bring it up.
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.
Its twin is in the library of things. The spare pair, sharpened every spring. £2 a week, Saturday mornings.
How to borrowMore from In store.
Table forks, worn through
Merrin & Sons, Tenter Lane, 1924The workshop, on the packing tableCost new: nine shillings the dozen
Copper jam pan
Unknown coppersmith, about 1890The kitchen, on the rangeCost new: eleven shillings
Flat iron
Unknown foundry, about 1900The kitchen, by the rangeCost new: ninepence
Where to see it
In store, ask to see it.
Most of the four thousand objects are in store in the old packing room. Ask at the front desk a day ahead and we’ll bring this one up to the reading room.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00, and until 20:00 on Thursdays.