As well as a place for storing garden and other tools, the backyard shed was where men tinkered and fixed things. Nevile Lodge’s 1967 cartoon about the extension of hotel closing hours also satirises the shed as a ‘male space’, by having the woman bar access.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Nevile Sidney Lodge Collection (B-133/138)
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B-137-321
Cartoon by Nevile Lodge
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