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Cecil A. Meadows

32 pp, 33 ills.

The Victorian ironmonger's shop was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern department store and a vast range of goods could be bought there. If the Victorian housewife needed knife-cleaning powder, candles, a saucepan or wallpaper she would visit the ironmonger. This book describes the Victorian ironmonger's varied stock and also explains the purchase of goods, keeping accounts, giving credit and the prompt delivery service.

The late Cecil A. Meadows was apprenticed in the 1920s to one of the last of the great furnishing and general ironmongers in Norwich. He gave many talks and lectures on the subject and contributed to the Eastern Daily Press on bygones as well as to the Hardware Trade Journal.