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A hinge is a component that attaches one edge of a door to the frame, while allowing the other edge to swing from it. It usually consists of a pair of plates, each with a set of open cylindrical rings (the knuckles) attached to them.
Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cleaning products, housewares, tools, utensils, paint, and lawn and garden ...
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.
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 both contexts, the term has expanded to include items made of steel , aluminium , brass , or other metals , as well as plastics .
Entrance to Ironmongers' Hall. Ironmongers' Hall is the home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. It is located in Aldersgate Street in the City of London.The first hall, dating back to 1457, was in Fenchurch Street; it was rebuilt in 1587 and rebuilt again in 1745 on the same site. [3]
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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.
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]