This is what the quarrymen used to carry their lunch to work
This food box was a gift from Griffith John Williams (1854-1933), schoolmaster, assistant inspector of mines in North Wales and author of “Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog” (1882). The box was transferred to the Museum of Welsh Antiquities in 1897. Boxes similar to this were used to carry worker’s food for the day as used by Ffestiniog quarrymen, c. 1860. They would also carry a small wooden pitcher to hold their drink