Boots and All

Having almost finished with the Irons, Lisa and Irini on the Wed/Thurs cataloguing team have moved on to Boots and Shoes.

Which brings us to an interesting question. When you see boots like these:

do you describe their condition as Good, Fair or Poor? These are the three condition categories that we have to choose from. If you were wearing them, with the nails from the repairs clearly sticking through, and into your feet, you would say "Poor". And probably in a quite firm voice.

But when a cataloguer looks at them, there is an argument that they are "Good", because they are a wonderful example of how boots were repaired and repaired and repaired.

Stand by for more - there are less boots and shoes than there are sewing machines and irons. But a lot more than wooden wheelbarrows (we only found three).

Callegero

Graham and Eddie, from the Friday Cataloguing Team, have been working inside Callegero. This was how it looked, just after Graham had started work on the items:

If you get a chance, do drop in for a look, and see the change.

One of the items catalogued there by the Wednesday/Thursday Cataloguing Team, is the wooden wheelbarrow under the verandah.

Which has got us wondering how many wooden wheelbarrows we have. So far we have found three - they are not as common as irons, or even as sewing machines.

Photos by Alisha Harland