Cooke Plough restored to former glory

John Cooke & Son were noted manufacturers of horse drawn ploughs based in Lincoln. The Lincolnshire Museum of Rural Life has a number of ploughs attributed to Cooke in their collection. The Museum is based in the listed former barracks built for the Royal North Lincoln Militia. It houses a comprehensive social history collection celebrating the culture of Lincolnshire since 1750.

Shrewsbury based Heritage Project Contracts is able to provide a comprehensive conservation service to clients. They were appointed by the Rural Life Museum to undertake the careful cleaning and conservation of this locally important plough that had survived in an original, unrestored condition. It was cleaned to remove loose corrosion layers back to a sound surface, preserving all the original surviving paint layers, before being protected with a layer of microcrystalline wax. It was then returned to the Museum for display.

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