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MUSEUM COLLECTION

Acc. 1669

Ref: MUS/308

Reference: [GB 0212] MUS/308
Date(s): 1910-1962
Level: Fonds
Extent: 6 items
Scope and content: Tailor's order books belonging to E. Edwards of Penygroes. Agricultural and similar notes, including recipes, give additional interest to these volumes.

MUS/308/1
Tailor's Order Book. Pencil notes at rear, including recipe, relate to farming or smallholding activity such as potato planting and the doings of cows.
1910-1918

MUS/308/2
Tailor's order book. Pencil notes at rear recording year's earnings, rent, rates and other expenses, as well as farming or smallholding activity and a recipe.
1918-1926

MUS/308/3
Tailor's order book. Pencil notes at rear: farming or smallholding activity and a recipe.
1926-1937

MUS/308/4
Tailor's order book. Customers' addresses at rear.
1934-1942

MUS/308/5
Tailor's order book. Includes loose coat order forms and newspaper cutting showing Princess Margaret (front) and recipe for winter washing of fruit trees (rear).
1937-1962

MUS/308/6
Cash Book, mostly blank, used as tailoring order book for the period 1958-1961. Pencil notes at rear relate to recent local history/home improvements, 'Nov 8th 1935 Electric light was used at Penygroes for the first time', Autumn 1945 The house was painted' and so on. In ink, 'Adrian Campion Edwards was born July 13, 1933'.