The Heritage Bed Company hand make brass & iron beds using traditional techniques that differ very little from the Victorian methods, apart from a modern powder coating paint plant and the odd electric hand tool. They occupy part of a Victorian railway building and the pictures below show some of the methods still in use today. A Heritage Bed will last lifetimes and become an antique of 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.
Patterns being laid out before a bed is cast
Each bed is manufactured to a specific order. When the order arrives at the factory, the exact specifications of the bed and the 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.
Each casting is hand poured
The casting process is then carried out to form the frame of the bed. Molten zinc is poured into moulds to form the decorative castings that, with steel tube, form the head and a foot ends of the bed.
After casting.
Once cast, the bed is carried across to the fettling department…
Each bed is hand fettled.
After casting the bed is fettled, a process which takes 1 to 2 hours. This ensures that all the castings are perfect and ready for painting. The bed also undergoes 6 individual tests to check the strength, shape and fixings of the bed are correct.
Our powder coating paint plant.
Finally the beds are sprayed and put through our powder coating oven to bake on the paint finish.
