Comments on: Crowden & Keeves’ Hardware

By: Pete Brandon

Pete Brandon — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:33:14 +0000

My dad worked there during 30,40 50 and 60’s. Sometimes he would take me to work on a Saturday morning. I remember the smell of cardboard and paper and would get a cheese roll from Syds stall.

By: Mónica Anguera Cuyás

Mónica Anguera Cuyás — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:43:29 +0000

Charming catalogue!!

Thanks a lot for sharing it.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:56:48 +0000

Wonderful. Stropping machine…. my clever clogs other half knew what it was of course!

By: Pimlico Pete

Pimlico Pete — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:19:59 +0000

Cow knobs?

Pimlico Pete

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:52:43 +0000

Wonderful sustainable Design! The Clocks are fantastic, aren’t they?

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:45:39 +0000

I still absolutely love hardware stores, and thankfully a few excellent ones still exist around the country. I can immediately think of one in Lewes E.Sussex, one in Kendal Cumbria, one in Leyburn in the Yorkshire Dales, and one in Norwich Norfolk. I’ve spent big money in everyone of the them!

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:05:38 +0000

Given all the changes in our lives, thanks to COVID, I would like to have a pair of those small “Ritzma” clippers–‘specially made for ladies’ neck clipping.’ My cut-my-own do’s might look better.

And the page on sieves helped me identify one I ‘inherited’ from the side of the road–it’s a large sand sieve!

Many thanks for this; a lovely trip into my grandparents’ lives.

By: Gregory Hubbard

Gregory Hubbard — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:05:31 +0000

It is surprising how many of these products could have been designed fifty years before this catalogue was printed. Some are very Victorian.
Thank you for reprinting this!

By: Cherub

Cherub — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:00:53 +0000

I would love to be the proud owner of one of those door knockers. Solid and reliable unlike some of the flimsy things you see in modern day DIY shops.
For 20 years until 2004 I lived out at Upminster in Essex and there used to be an old fashioned hardware and DIY shop called Jarvo’s in one of the side streets off Station Lane. It was a total jumble and some of the ancient stuff they stocked like door handles looked like they were from the 50s and 60s. We used to love going in there because despite all the jumble, when you asked for something they knew EXACTLY where to find it! ?

By: paul loften

paul loften — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:24:22 +0000

Cor blimey. Now you are talking quality! Brass Knobs and knockers. Tools and buckets. You don’t see this stuff anywhere now. Although for those of us connoisseurs of quality brass screws and good old solid fittings and fixtures there is one last bolthole in East London that I sometimes visit and that is Wakefields in Lea Bridge Road where you can browse around and the guys there will set you up nicely with the right screw for the job. They also stock good brass knobs and knockers and letterboxes none of that cheap brass plated rubbish!
Thank you, James Ince and the GA for giving us a taste for true quality