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But “it was as if they merely checked off their 'good deed' box and then forgot about him”, he says.

Mr. Dwerrihouse pulled out his deed box, put his travelling-cap in his pocket, resumed his hat, took down his umbrella, and prepared to be gone.

The matter, he said, was put to a practical test thus: two iron rails were supported on brickwork at a height of about eighteen inches from the ground, and underneath them a strong fire of wood shavings and chips was made, and when this had well burnt up, a deed box filled with papers was pushed along the rails to the centre of the fire, where it was completely enveloped in the flames, and there it remained for a space of twenty minutes.

There are ritual objects like an 18th-century silver and coral Torah case from Iraq, as well as equipment from one of the East End’s last Jewish bakeries and unclaimed items from a “deed box” of the Jews’ Temporary Shelter that housed new immigrants in early-20th-century London.

The box indicated was one of ordinary thin sheet iron, japanned black—something like what is called a deed box.