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.


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