The ironwork of Arthur Holloway as discussed on I SPY / I HEAR

The ironwork of Arthur Holloway

This ironwork is one of the things discussed in I SPY / I HEAR this week in The Hub. Other things I saw included this horse brass;

...these bee skeps;



...these hand-clappers for scaring away the birds;



...and this mechanical bird-scarer.



To hear me talking with the Museum's Curator - Roy Brigden - you can hear the whole piece on BBC Oxford's iPlayer. You'll only be able to catch it for a week so do tune in while it lasts! If you want to see the collection at MERL yourself, go to the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/.