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Places To Visit


Abergavenny Museum and Castle. Castle Street, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, NP7 5EE. Telephone: 01873 854282. Website: www.abergavennymuseum.co.uk

Beamish, North of England Open Air Museum. Beamish, County Durham, DH9 0RG. Telephone: 0191 370 4000. Website: www.beamish.org.uk

Black Country Living Museum. Tipton road, Dudley, West Midlands DY1 4SQ. Telephone: 0121 557 9643. Website: www.bclm.co.uk

Blists Hill Victorian Town. Madeley, Telford, Shropshire TF7 5DU. Telephone: 01952 583003. Website: www.ironbridge.org.uk

Flambards Village Theme Park. Helston, Cornwall TR13 0QA. Telephone: 01326 573404. Website: www.flambards.co.uk

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse – Museum of Norfolk Life. Gressenhall, Dereham, Norfolk NR20 4DR. Telephone: 01362 860563. Website: www.gressenhall.museum@norfolk.gov.uk

“How We Lived Then” -  Museum of Shops. 20 Cornfield Terrace, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 4NS. Telephone: 01323 737143. Website: www.how-we-lived-then.co.uk

Milestones – Hampshire’s Living History Museum. West ham Leisure Park, Churchill Way West, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6YR. Telephone: 01256 477766. Website: www.hants.gov.uk/museums

Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising. Colville Mewes, Lonsdale road, Notting Hill, London W11 2AR. Telephone: 020 7908 0880. Website: www.museumofbrands.com

Museum of East Anglian Life. Crowe Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1DL. Telephone: 01449 612229. Website: www.eastanglianlife.org.uk

Museum of London. 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN. Telephone: 0870 444 3852. Website: www.museumoflondon.org.uk

Shambles Museum of Victorian Life, Church Street, Newent, Gloucestershire  GL18 1PP. Telephone: 01531 822144. Website: www.shamblesnewent.co.uk

St. Fagans National History Museum. St. Fagans, Cardiff, South Wales CF5 6XB. Telephone: 029 2057 3500. Website: www.museumwales.sc.uk

Staffordshire County Museum, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Services, Shugbprough, Milford, ST17 0XB. Telephone: 01889 881388. Website:  www.staffordshire.gov.uk

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0UE. Telephone: 01243 811363. Website: www.wealddown.co.uk

The Shop Museum. 25 High street, Wrentham, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 7HD. Telephone: 01502 723331. Website: www.theshopmuseum.co.uk

Yesterday’s World, Great Yarmouth. 34 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2EN. Telephone: 01493 331148. Website: www.reception@yesterdaysworld.co.uk


Yesterday’s World, Battle. East Sussex. Yesterday’s World Head Office, Wyland farm, Powdermill lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0SU. Telephone: 01424 893938. Website: www.info@yesterdaysworld.co.uk

York Castle Museum, Eye of York. York YO1 9RY. Telephone: 01904 687687. Website: www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk


Suggested Further Reading.


Starr, Freda. A village shop. The Boydell Press (the Bygone Collection), 1979.

Brown, Jonathan & Ward, Sadie.  The village shop. Rural Development Commission in association with Cameron &  Hollis and David & Charles, 1990.

Morrison, Kathryn A. English shops and shopping. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003.


Wheeler, Hazel. Half a pound of tuppenny rice. (Life in a Yorkshire Village Shop) (Hazel Wheeler) Sutton Publishing, 1993.

Wheeler, Hazel. Living on tick: tales from a huddersfield corner shop between the wars. Tempus Publishing Limited, 2002.

Cheung, Hoh, & Mui, Lorna H. Shops and shopkeeping in the eighteenth century. Mcgill-Queen’s University Press – Routledge, 1989.

Winstanley, Michael J. The shopkeeper’s world 1830-1914.  Manchester University Press, 1983

Davis, Dorothy. A history of shopping. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966.

Alexander, David. Retailing in england during the industrial revolution. The Athlone Press (University of London), 1970.

Fraser, W. Hamish. The coming of the mass market 1850-1914. The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1981.

Adburgham, Alison. Shops and shopping. George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1964.

Thompson, Flora. The illustrated larkrise to candleford. (Flora Thompson) Cresset Press, 1983.

Jefferys, James B. Retail trading in britain 1850-1950. Cambridge at the University Press. (the National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 1954.

Harrison, Molly. People and shopping.  Ernest Benn. 1975.

Edited by Alexander, Nicholas and Akehurst, Gary. The emergence of modern retailing 1750-1950. Frank Cass (London), 1999.

Weights and Measures Table



Avoirdupois Weight
                                                                           
16 drams  =  1 ounce
16 ounces  =  1 pound
14 pounds  =  1 stone
28 pounds  =  1 quarter
4 quarters  =  1 hundredweight (112 pounds)


Wool weight

7 packs  =  1 clove
4 cloves  =  1 todd
6 ½ todds  =  1 wey (182 lbs.)
2 weys  =  1 sack
12 sacks  =  4368 pounds (29 cwt.)
240 pounds  =  1 pack


Capacity

4 gills  =  1 pint
2 pints  =  1 quart
4 quarts  =  1 gallon
1 gallon   =  10lbs avoirdupois of distilled water
4 ½ gallons  =  1 pin
2 gallons   =  1 peck
9 gallons   =  1 firkin (for ale or beer)
18 gallons   =  1 kilderkin
36 gallons   =  1 barrel (for ale or beer)
42 gallons   =  1 tierce
54 gallons   =  1 hogshead (for ale or beer)
72 gallons   =  1 puncheon (for ale or beer)
108 gallons  =  1 pipe or butt

           
Used for dry goods

4 pecks  =  1 bushel
8 bushels  =  1 quarter
5 quarters  =  1 load
36 bushels  =  1 chaldron


Yarn Measure  -  Linen

300 yards  =  1 cut
2 cuts  =  1 heer
6 heers  =  1 hank
4 hanks  =  1 spindle


Yarn Measure  -  Cotton

120 yards  =  1 skein
7 skeins  =   1 hank
18 hanks  =  1 spindle


Cloth Measure

2 ¼ inches  =   1 nail
4 nails =   1 quarter (9 inches)
4 quarters  =   1 yard (36 inches)
5 quarters  =   1 ell (45 inches)
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