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A very deep-perpective and dramatic shot of a vintage flatbed farm / dairy wagon. It's now standing proudly in its retirement outside Bredbury Hall, Stockport, 2011, standing in front of milk churns that it might have carried back in the day.

You can clearly see the arrangement of leaf springs for the suspension and the workmanship of those huge wooden wheels by the cartwright or wainwright (ancient names for that ancient craft). Incidently, you can see a close-up of the frontmost wheel...

Keywords: flatbed wagon, vintage, Bredbury Hall Hotel, dairy, wooden wheels, craft, cartwright, wainwright