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/.

What do you want to hear on The Hub?

Know about a fantastic art project that isn't getting any publicity in Oxford? A band who do concerts in their own kitchen? Yes? No? If you do, let us know and we'll do our best to cover it... if you don't, tune in this Sunday to 95.2fm in Oxford to hear about some of the hidden cultural gems we've found so far...

We'd love to know if you have an Oxford thing that you want us to feature in the show. Just leave a comment and our keen-eared team will check it out.