Collections

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.