The Hooping Plate
Introduction
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The Hooping Plate
Image: © gordon clitheroe Taken: 20 Apr 2011
This iron hooping plate was being moved from its former site in Eastgate to its new home at Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering. The plate had been used by wheelwrights John Willy Dale, and his sons Tommy and Dickie Dale,until they died. Red hot steel hoops or tyres, were fitted onto wooden cart wheels using this plate before being cooled with water in order to shrink them onto the wheels.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.242647
Longitude
-0.772525