Meat safe
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1950
Materials
Steel, paint, waxed paper, pine
Measurements
76 x 55.5 x 50 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318289
Summary
A pale blue-painted steel and mesh meat safe, British, first half 20th century, of rectangular box form with mesh panels to the front and sides, the hinged front door painted with a dark blue border, the door with later pine fastener the interior with two metal shelves lined with waxed paper, hooks to the top of the meat safe ceiling.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.