Artifact of the Week One: Clogs

Hi everyone, my name is Anna Patterson and I'm the Education Events and Volunteer Coordinator here at Dundas Museum and Archives. Now of course given the current situation we aren't able to welcome you directly into the museum as we normally would like, so we've decided to do a series of videos featuring an artifact of the week. So we've decided to start with these artifacts here. These are child's work clogs, which is really interesting. I find they're one of the most interesting artifacts we have because they're an example of the type of piece that often doesn't get collected by museums simply because this type of work clothing doesn't always survive the test of time. Now you may recognize this from our childhood exhibit where they were on display. These child work clogs were worn extensively in the Lancashire Cotton Mills and they were worn by a member of Mrs. Law's family. Now what's really interesting is that they are made of leather but then they also have wooden soles and steel around the outside here. I find that they are really really fascinating to look at but also really interesting to think about the fact that they're just so small and to think about the age of the child that would have worn these in the cotton mills. Now this is just the first of a series of videos that we're going to be bringing you here from the vault at the museum and we hope that you enjoy them and find them as fascinating as we do. Now if you need more information you can always check out our website dundasmuseum.ca and find all of the resources that we have to offer there. Thanks so much! Bye!