Wally Gilbert

Cast iron roof beams for AWG

Cast iron roof beams for the AWG building in Queen’s Square, London, completed 2017

AWG 1redAWG 2 red

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First casting. One of 13 cast iron beams designed to carry a glass roof.

Below the first of two rail bridges for the new rail terminal at Daventry, 2017             https://www.prologis.co.uk/our-stories/the-new-bridge-at-prologis-rfi-dirft

Prologis DIRFT Bridge-1 red

Prologis DIRFT Bridge-11red

Below – Early alternative designs  for the cast aluminium panels of parapets

Scans of Screen 6 & 6cx RScreens 1 and 1Bx R

Scans of Screen 3 & 3cxR

Below one half of a carved wood pattern for sand casting aluminium.

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First of two ‘mirrored’ patterns carved from plywood nearing completion.
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Chiselling out the ‘draft’ on the pattern.

Aumbry
Design for Cathedral aumbry in which the holy oils are kept. Completed 2016
Aumbry
Above bronze Aumbry to hold the Holy Oils in St.David’s Cathedral

Bridge parapets over the Grand Uion canal in cast aluminium.

Pineham bridge parapets
Cast aluminium parapets Pineham bridge over the Grand Union Canal.

Martyn Pugh & I on completion of a clock for Birmingham Assay Office in 2018

 The link below is to a project for a foyer clock for the new Birmingham Assay office

http://www.martynpugh.co.uk/guardian-timepiece-making-a-clock-part-two/

Success

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The Queen looks at Hereford Cathedral’s Mace

The Queen looks at Hereford Cathedral's Mace

Wally was commissioned to make a mace to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Here she looks at it whilst Prince Philip appears to look at Wally with some surprise, and maybe even wild surmise.  Wally, until he saw this photo, was under the illusion that, wearing suit, he was looking smart. That’s the trouble with photos of one self, they always so disappoint.

Hereford mace
A composite picture of the Hereford Cathedral Mace.