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Description: | White metal plate, bent down at one end. Two curved semi-circular pieces with holes, bent upwards, to which are attached leather straps. These straps would fasten around the shoe. The kick iron was used to protect boots whilst digging. It could fit either the left or right foot. The kick iron was last used in the 1950s by the donor whilst digging sewers and trenches at the Rise Park Estate, Nottingham. Used before the widespread use of machinery for such jobs.
Mr Booth was 75 in 1998, at the time of donation.
He remembered that the kick iron had been given to him by someone, possibly an Irishman.
Accession number: NCMG 2009-113 | Subjects: | working life Nottingham and Notts. | Temporal: | 1940-1960 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | used by BOOTH/John | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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