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An ironmonger's shop in Pickering, North Yorkshire Inside a typical ironmonger's in Soignies (Belgium) An ironmonger's shop in France, with iron goods and other consumer goods Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use.
In the United Kingdom, hardware stores can be known as ironmongers, DIY stores and home improvement stores. British retail chains include B&Q, Homebase, and Wickes. Australian hardware chain Bunnings opened their first shop in St Albans in February 2017 and planned to convert several other Homebase shops into pilot Bunnings shops after ...
Architectural ironmongery includes door handles, closers, locks, cylinder pulls and hinges (door furniture), window fittings, cupboard fittings, iron railings, handrails, balustrades, switches and sockets. The term is sometimes used to distinguish between these items and retail of consumer goods sold in ironmongers' shops or hardware stores.
William Carter had an ironmongery shop in High Street, Oxford by 1812, [3] when he founded an iron foundry [1] in Summertown [3] which was then a rural location north of Oxford. He moved the foundry to the banks of the Oxford Canal in 1825, [ 3 ] one of the first developments in what is now the district of Jericho in central Oxford.
Ceremonial Barge of the Ironmongers' Company. The Ironmongers, originally known as the Ferroners, were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1463. Their company's original association with iron merchants has lessened, especially due to the movement of the industry from Southern England to the North, where iron ore is more available.
The shop front of Gwalia Stores. The stores were a family business, run by William Llewellyn and his family. [2] By 1916 the departments included bakery, ironmongery, grocery, men's outfitters, pharmacy and animal feeds. Some of the stores' employees also lodged on the premises. [1] "Gwalia Stores" was a popular name for grocery stores in Wales ...
Pryke & Palmer Ltd. was a company of ironmongers and builders' merchants, [1] in the City of London, England. Their illustrated and extensive catalogues (a 1 November 1894 edition in Australia's Caroline Simpson Library has 782 pages [ 2 ] ) have become sought-after by collectors, with some reproduced in facsimile editions .
The company began in 1797, when the Benjamin Ingram company of joiners and carpenters was founded at Beech Street in London. [3] Benjamin Ingram subsequently merged with Perkins to become Ingram Perkins in 1850. [4]