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Chaplin, Mathew (plumber)

Extent
128 objects
Date
1890s-1920s
Wooden chase wedge in Mathew Chaplin's plumber collection
Chase wedge. MERL 77/114

Mathew Chaplin was a plumber in Newbury and later Speen (now part of Newbury) in Berkshire from the 1890s to 1920s. Dr J. J. Morland acquired these plumbers’ tools from Chaplin’s son’s house at Speen. The collection of tools came to the museum from Dr Morland in 1977.

This collection consists of Mathew Chaplin’s plumbing tools and equipment.

More Information

  • The objects are catalogued on the online database. Search using the phrase ‘Mathew Chaplin’
A hand-written object label for a sheep bell from Devon

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