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  • Ice box made of softwood, but grained to imitate oak. Its interior is zinc lined with two removable trays.
Ice box, c. 1910
Plas Mawr, Conwy, late 16th century townhouse, the kitchen
  • This piece of furniture was known as a bread-crate or 'clwyd fara', a wooden crate-like construction that would be suspended from the ceiling of a farmhouse and used to keep bread or oatcakes away from mice. Curiously, the surviving examples of bread-crates are from the northern counties of Wales. This particular example was once part of a collection of antiquities from Penrhyn Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay, Caernarfonshire.
Bread crate from Penrhyn Bay, 18th century
  • This tea caddy can be provenanced to Caernarfonshire as it is made of a local material, slate, and has been painted on each side with local scenes; Penrhyn Castle, Menai Bridge, Moel Siabod and Llyn Padarn.
Tea caddy from Bangor, 19th century
  • Wine was a stable part of a soldier's rations. Stave from a tub originally used to carry wine. The tub was later reused as lining for a well towards the late first century AD.
Stave of wooden barrel from the Roman period