Hands on Tauranga offers students stimulating and original learning opportunities with real museum objects that support the New Zealand curriculum at primary and secondary school level.
A stoneware bed warmer cylindrical in shape with screw lid on top.
Bed warmers were filled with boiling water and placed between sheets to warm a cold bed. Bed warmers such as these were a luxury and a heated brick or stone was used by those who could not afford it. These were replaced by hot water bottles made of rubber.
date: 19th Century
manufacturer: 'Lovell', England
maximum dimension: 260mm
subject area: Social Science, PE & Health, English and Languages
subject themes: History, Health, Domestic, Home, Technology
handling collection number: HC33
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