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Galvanized goods – Annfield Plain Co-op, Beamish
At Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum, you can experience many aspects of Victorian/Edwardian life – as well as other periods – but one of the most fascinating visits you can make is to the hardware section of the Annfield Plain Co-operative Store, which was removed brick by brick and re-erected at Beamish. Given that the area of Northumberland and Durham were heavily involved in coal mining, it is no surprise to see that the Co-op hardware store is fully stocked with items that a 1913 community would need.
Here we see an array of galvanized items, stacked on the floor, against the sales counter. Galvanizing – coating with a layer of the metal zinc – is one of the quickest and easiest ways of rust-proofing a mild steel object. The zinc coating can deposited in one of two ways a) by electro-deposition, that is, an electrical current can be passed through a zinc-containing solution, in which one of the electrodes is formed by the object you wish to plate with zinc (this system was named after Luigi Galvani) or b) ‘hot-dipping’, where the required object is dipped into a bath of molten lead. Electro-plating gives a brighter finish, with a larger ‘cell’ structure visible, which causes the object to almost sparkle, whereas hot-dipped gives a thicker, duller coat, which offers greater protection to the steel or iron object so treated.
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