Wheelwright’s shop gallery:
Gun Carriages and Cannon wheels,
Coaches, dray wheels,
Handcarts and more
We hope this gallery portrays our way of life and work here at Wheelwright’s shop.
We cover all types of wheels from cannon wheels and gun carriages through to hand carts,bone shakers and more.
We pride ourselves on being different and maintaining links to our crafts long history in our family.
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- Wheelers badge belonging to Albert Lancelot Crowhurst
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- British Boneshaker wheels unknown maker.
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- Boneshaker wheels
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- Boneshaker spokes
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- Spoking velocipede wheels.
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- Boneshaker wheels
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- Boneshaker wheel
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- Velocipede
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- Freshly hooped Boneshaker wheels
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- Velocipede
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- 1860’s French velocipede with its new wheels.
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- Velocipede wheels
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- Boneshaker wheels ready for hooping.
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- Velocipede wheel after hooping.
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- Velocipede wheel fixed on the hooping plate.
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- Velocipede wheels
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- Velocipede wheels
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- Oiled Boneshaker Wheels
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- Hooping Velocipede wheels
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- Setting out and digging the post holes.
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- The shingled roof from below before trimming.
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- Wall plate complete, time for purlins.
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- Clearing and selecting timber in the woodland.
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- All the timber frame complete ready for roofing
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- Charring the log ends on the fire to prevent rotting.
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- Roundhouse construction
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- Hand boring Roundhouse timbers
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- Joe nailing cedar shingles
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- Posts in place beginning to fit the wall plate.
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- Boring the pin holes by hand.
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- De-barking the logs.
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- Driving in the giant nails or pins.
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- Roof purlins nearly done.
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- Driving giant pins
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- Hand boring roundhouse timbers
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- Round timber sourced and back at base.
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- Roof battens going on.
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- Roundhouse construction team
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- Completed roundhouse
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- Completed shingle roof on the roundhouse looking towards the nature area. cob and cordwood walls made by the school children using the off cuts from the frame.
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- Roof joists being fitted and fixed.
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- Roundhouse complete with cedar shingle roof.
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- Cutting logs to length.
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- Roundhouse battons
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- Cutting the half lap joints on the wall plate sections.
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- Roundhouse frame
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- Polelathe headstock setup
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- Solid Oak picnic table
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- Wooden Beetles with Elm heads and Ash shafts, bound with tapered bands for longevity.
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- High quality safety locking lathe centres.
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- Wheelwright’s shop, Banks, Lancashire, UK
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- Apprentice Wheelwright Joe Fredricks making spokes for a wooden wheel by hand.
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- Master Wheelwright Phill Gregson winning The Wellman Trophy at the Royal Cheshire show 2015
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- Hooping wooden wheels
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- Hooping fire
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- Phill Gregson Wheelwright talking to a woodcarving group
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- Mega Maul/ Beetle, one of the largest we have made weighs around 15kilos.
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- Famous for my love of real ale, they named one after me!
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- Crafts demonstrations
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- Re-enactment and traditional crafts
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- My son Aaron learning blacksmithing skills
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- Wheelwright’s Queens Jubilee
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- Yeoman of the Worshipful company of Wheelwrights
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- Spoking wooden wheels
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- Historic fire escape metalwork restoration
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- Historic wheeled fire escape restoration
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- Loading a 50 feet long Wheeled escape ladder onto a wagon for delivery to The Merseyside Fire Service Museum
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- Warner naves
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- Large wooden wheels
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- Wheeled escape ladder restoration
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- Wheeled escape leaving the workshop
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- Wheeled escape chassis restoration
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- Wheeled escape inspection
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- Painting wooden wheels
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- Wheeled escape completed
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- Wooden wheel naves
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- Wooden wheels and hooping fire
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- Wheeled escape ladder
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- 50′ wheeled escape
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- Repaired Wooden car wheel for a Dodge automobile
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- Large wooden warner wheel
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- Wooden wheeled escape restoration
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- Wheeled escape ladder
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- Model T wooden wheel
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- Warner wheel spoking
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- Wheeled escape rolling chassis
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- Wheeled escape winding gear restoration
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- Wheelwright’s shop at the Lord Mayors show 2016
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- Restored Wooden french car wheel with steel rim for separate tyre.
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- Wooden french car wheel
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- Wooden car wheel restoration
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- Traditional French Wooden car wheel with pneumatic tyre
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- WWI Commonwealth wheelers badge
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- Master Wheelwright award by the City and Guilds of London.
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- Wheelwright’s shop demonstration team
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- Worldwide wheelwright in colonial Williamsburg
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- Worldwide Wheelwright at Colonial Williamsburg
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- Worldwide wheelwright hooping wheels
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- BBC Countryfile shrimping, Southport
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- BBC Countryfile filming on Southport beach with Matt Baker and Phill Gregson
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- Hooping demonstrations
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- Polelathe centres
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- Pole lathe centres
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- Oak picnic table at Wheelwright’s shop, Lancashire
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- Oak benches
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- Wheelwright’s shop woodland
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- Warner wheel naves
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- Large wooden warner wheel
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- Worldwide wheelwright study at Colonial Williamsburg
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- Wheelwright demonstrations and talks
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- Country Wheelwright
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- Quarter sawn Oak
Canon Wheels, Wooden car wheels, Boneshaker wheels, Hobby horse wheels, Handcart wheels, Gun carriages, Canon, Model T Ford, Muck cart, tip cart, Horsedrawn vehicles, Women’s suffrage and more…