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Relief hut door, 1907

1949.2.8 1907 Pitch pine 1,840 × 760 × 30 mm

Four boards, two ledges, no frame. Public Works built these by the hundred in the weeks after January 1907 and people lived behind them on North Street for longer than anyone intended.

The hinges were cut off before it reached us. The stencilled number on the back is the hut number, and it is the only record that hut existed.

Accession
1949.2.8
Made
1907
Maker
Public Works Department, Kingston
Came from
North Street, Kingston
Material
Pitch pine
Size
1,840 × 760 × 30 mm
Kept
Brick, lime and timber

Out on the floor, today, freeIt is in Brick, lime and timber. Walk in during opening hours and look at it. Nobody will ask you for a ticket or a reason.

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