Port trades
Together with the cargo-handling holdings, this group constitutes the largest part of the overall collection and includes the following:
- Barge building equipment collected from riverside Barge yards and private individuals
- Blacksmith’s forges and tools collected from the various dock estates
- Boat building tools and equipment
- Candle making equipment
- Chain testing machinery
- Caulking tools
- Dock carpenter’s tools and equipment
- Dock construction and maintenance tools and equipment
- Drug and spice milling equipment, including a large edge-runner
- Engineering tools and equipment
- Engineering pattern-making tools, together with a very attractive collection of wooden patterns
- Leather and fur processing trade equipment
- Nautical instrument making tools
- Paint and colour making
- Paper and board making
- Rice Milling
- Rigger’s workshop items
- Sail makers’ benches, hand tools and sewing machines
- Shipbuilding material, including a very comprehensive collection of wooden shipwright’s tools
- Ship-repairing equipment, including a large amount of material relating to work on iron and steel vessels
- Ship-chandler’s equipment and stock-in-trade
- Ship’s tinsmith’s tools
- Tobacco processing.