Object number
80/61
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Description
This is a malt barrow. Its principal use is in laying steeped grain out onto the germinating floors, but barrows of this type have found their uses in loading malt onto the kiln or shifting malt around the stores. This barrow holds 8 bushels. There were also smaller versions of 6 bushels capacity. This barrow was made by Robert Boby & Son of Bury St. Edmonds, the leading supplier of malting equipment and machinery from the later nineteenth century onwards. Because Boby's supplied most of this type of barrow, it was commonly known as a Boby barrow. This one came from a disused malthouse (Lee & Grinling No. 14) at Great Gonerby near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Physical description
1 malt barrow: good condition.
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Standard museum name: Malt barrow // Accession number: 80/61 // Classification: Processing, grain malt // Negative number: 60/14709 // Acquisition method: Gift // Acquired from, date: Pauls & Sandars Ltd., Grantham, 3 June 1980 // Store: // Condition: Good // Recorder, date: J. H. B. 28 October 1980 // Description: A tipping barrow consisting of two wheels of 4 feet diameter, with solid rubber tyres. Suspended from the axle is a half-moon shaped bucket, which can be tipped through 180 degrees. // Dimensions: Wheels 117cm diameter; 84cm between wheels. Bucket: top: 89x70cm; radius 61cm. // Associated information: A malt barrow. Its principal use is in laying steeped grain out onto the germinating floors, but barrows of this type have found their uses in loading malt onto the kiln or shifting malt around the stores. This barrow holds 8 bushels - there were also smaller versions of 6 bushels capacity. The barrow was made by Robert Boby & Son of Bury St. Edmonds, the leading supplier of malting equipment and machinery from the later nineteenth century onwards. Because Boby's supplied most of this type of barrow, it was commonly known as a Boby barrow. This one came from a disused malthouse (Lee & Grinling No. 14) at Great Gonerby near Grantham. // References: H. Stopes, [‘Malt and Malting’ underlined] (1885) in R.U.L. // MERL., Nalder Collection, 465, P2/A, Nalder leaflet No.218 of 1906; and 467, P/B Catalogue of Robert Boby 1902.'
Production place
Bury Saint Edmunds
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\Documents\Scans\80_61_doc_02.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\Documents\Scans\80_61_doc_03.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\Documents\Scans\80_61_doc_01.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14709.tif - High resolution image
