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The Heritage bed company Factory in Cornwall.


The Heritage bed company hand make brass & iron beds using traditional Victorian techniques. Apart from a modern powder coating paint plant and the odd electric hand tool the Heritage bed company use methods that differ very little from the Victorian era and they us part of a Victorian railway building to manufacture their superb beds. The pictures below show some of the methods still used in 2008.

A Heritage bed will last life times and become an antique in the future.
The Railway Buildings where Heritage bed co make their beds
From an old Victorian railway building in the heart of Cornwall, The heritage bed company manufacture what many believe are the best traditional metal beds manufactured anywhere in the world.

The factory’s set up to use the handcrafted casting techniques used in the Victorian era to enable our craftsmen to produce beds to the same specifications and standards as the original brass and iron beds manufactured in the Victorian era
Patterns being laid out before a bed is cast.
Each bed is manufactured to a specific order that arrives at the factory the specification of the bed along with customers name are passed on to our skilled craftsmen who set up the moulds and patterns required to cast each individual bed.
Each casting is hand poured.
The casting process is then carried out to form the frame of the bed, this happens when molten zinc is poured into moulds to form the decorative castings that along with steel tube form the head and a foot end of the beds.
After casting.
Once cast the bed is carried across to a fettling department.....
Each bed is hand fettled.
Once cast the beds is fettled for between 1-2 hours to make sure all the castings are perfect and ready for painting. The bed also undergoes 6 individual tests the check strength and angles and fixings on a bed
Our powder coating paint plant.
Finally the beds are sprayed and put through our powder coating oven to bake on the paint finish.