Name/TitleShelves
About this objectPart of a set of wooden shelves, these were fixed to the front wall of the West Row Forge, which was worked by four generations of the family of the donor's late husband.
This set had six shelves, the bottom one contains a full-length drawer and the one above two half-drawers. The three top shelves are divided into three sections, with two drawers in the lower two (one of these contains bits for the drill, see A.7744). The fourth shelf is divided into two sections.
The donor's husband was apprenticed to his father from the age of 12, at a time when his father had two of his own brothers also working with him. He took over the business after his father's death, but trade declined owing to the decrease in the number of horses on the land, and c. 1950 he gave up altogether and went into farming instead.
Medium and MaterialsWood
MeasurementsHeight: 56cm
Width: 90.5cm
Depth: 29cm
Object Typeshelf
Object numberSTMEA:A.7743.1
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)
