HoLRSG History of Locks Research & Social Group Meeting at:- MLA HQ, Rugby, UK, CV21 1TF All welcome
Gatherings:3rd Sunday of the month. Next meeting: 19th May from 10am
Itinery: 10:00am -12:30 Archive-Artefact access and research/Networking wiith other members. 12:30 - 1:30: Lunch Break (bring your own sandwiches (tea, coffee & biscuits provided) 1:30 - 4:00Researching Chubb – from that moment the first lock, patented in 1818 by Jerimiah Chubb, the company as well as the people involved is full of twists and turns, adventure and intrigue, emotion and passion and all set against a backdrop of world events… We start to put together the definitive story starting our first Group project. There is allways time after a meeting for further socialising & networking.
There does seem to be a thread devoted to this lock, so here goes.
These are a few pictures of a lock given by the company to the Royal Museum of Scotland, so apparently a fairly early, however no...
We have this one in the Heritage Rooms Colection which we know little about: it was one of many items we aquired from the Dutch Frima collection so asume its European. Peter Frima was in charge of...
Mallet was likely a large retailer. Early in the last century, Yale badged locks for several large retailers. Some of these had started out as ironmongery makers, but gradually moved to having...
Not sure if I should post here. Recently I was gifted some junk from Harry Millers collection. Well some might call it junk. It was stuff that was either incomplete or just not considered worthy...
There does seem to be a thread devoted to this lock, so here goes. These are a few pictures of a lock given by the company to the Royal Museum of Scotland, so apparently a fairly early, however no...
Hobbs Parautoptic lock