Latest on Bradford...

This was the stage id got to last week in cookies garage, spend the day on the back board and really enjoyed it, was raining on my back a little bit but still loved it!  really got to grips with the lining brush for the first time. 

Two picture of last autumn when I was racing to get the front of the Burton Primed, and two pics of how the Bradfords coming along - painting that I did on Sunday. 

more pics of martyn and marys caravan, which is now available to stay in at: gypsycaravanbreaks.co.uk

A wagon I painted a couple of years ago and can be rented to stay in for short breaks...check out this website which has some lovely pics of it!!!  /http://gypsycaravanbreaks.co.uk/ 

More Burton Wagon Pics...

more stuff from last year, taking back the front lock.

Burton Wagon - stage one 2010

I have minimally started work on my Burton style living wagon due for full renovation this summer 2011, after I graduate.   Initially the most important thing was a new set of wheels as they needed alot of repair, this turned into a new set of very large wheels which cost a bomb but where well worth investing in, the whole wagon sits on them after all!  I was recommended Richard Connell by a good friend, he did me a good deal and made a good job of the wheels as you will see in the pictures.  I am removing the ugly and unnecessarily heavy weather boards and porch brackets to be replaced by prettier and much lighter versions.  This is a peg knife wagon, but good and functional at the same time, just needs prettying up and above all lightening.  The whole thing is to be completely stripped back and primered and repainted but this is the last of my worries right now really.  The wheels done...the roof is the next mini project.  It need re-canvassing and a couple of runners need new wood splicing in.  Im also toying with the idea of replacing the glass in the mollicroft as ive been offered some newly made cranberry patterned glass for it.  Will post updates and outcomes of various jobs on this wagon, as I go along ...the story so far...

Bradford Cart

Ive been painting a Bradford cart for Cookie which funnily enough I'd already painted about 12 years ago up on the mendips for a man called Paul.  Since then its changed hands a few times, had a shaft broken and been left in a hedge to rott!  Lovingly restored its now getting the odd bit of paint every now and then from me...here are some of the first pics from last december when I started painting it...