Comments on: Crowden & Keeves’ Hardware https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:40:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Keeves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-1366605 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:40:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-1366605 As an Australian descendant of the founders of the Keeves part of the Crowden and Keeves enterprise, I was delighted to see this catalogue. Thank you.

]]> By: Gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86507 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:33:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86507 My father had an “Ironcrete” garden roller, the solid roller itself has survived and now forms part of a water feature in my garden.
Gary

]]> By: Paul Huckett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86501 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:00:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86501 As an antique dealer in rural Australia , I still see these types of things at clearing sales on older farms and homesteads and there is a thriving market in this sort of everyday collectable –people love the workman-like tools and kitchen gadgets of what is now nearly 100 years ago !

]]> By: Gill Cork https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86427 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:04:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86427 An incredible collection of hardware from times gone by. Some of them sound like instruments of torture what with monkey stroppers, horse scrapers, toilet clippers and stropping machines not to mention castrating irons – truly the mind boggles…..

]]> By: aubrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86378 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:35:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86378 As children we played in and around the area. The name was a part of our vocabulary although we didn’t take it’s spelling or function too seriously! (In fact not at all). And, as I remember, when we referred to the premises, we pronounced it as “crowd’nkeeves” all one word. Although it was a kind of local landmark, it had never really occurred to me that it was an actual enterprise!

]]> By: annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86374 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:21:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86374 Wow, what an amazing collection of hardware!
Ferret muzzles and bells, banister brushes, bone smashers….!

]]> By: Pamela https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86335 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:51:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86335 What every house needs – a Monkey stropper! 🙂 Wouldn’t this store be wonderful to walk through?

]]> By: Pride in Work https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/01/29/crowden-keeves-hardware/#comment-86260 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:58:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=80081#comment-86260 Thank you so much for posting.

Wonder what we can do to enhance craftsmanship skills in our youth.

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