Looking at the timbers one can see slots and holes that formed tongued and grooved joints and holes for wattle and daub wall posts. As the name suggests, they were used for housing the farm wagons and carts although one bay had been used as the farm carpenters area at some stage.
The first picture shows the largest bay of the cart shed. To the left is a partially restored Stone Mill donated by the Chiltern Society from Lacy Green Windmill and awaiting completion. Originally the mill had two 4 ft diameter stones mounted on the vertical shaft but due to deterioration of the stones, we intend to make a lightweight dummy top stone, such that the mill can be made to turn.
Our massive timber wagon used for hauling large tree trunks is in the centre of the picture with another cart to the right. Other items in this bay include some grain processing machinery.
One of the bays in the cart sheds has been allocated to Wags Wharf, a very detailed and working model, it was installed during the winter of 2008/9 and opened for the first time to the public at Pitstone on Easter Monday 2009
A Model in SM32, Track Gauge ~ 32mm, Scaled at 16mm to the foot
Wags Wharf represents a small canal spur wharf probably built in the late 1800's on the now derelict Wendover arm of the Grand Junction canal.
The wharf was built to service the steam powered pumping station that was needed to supply the canal with water at it's highest point as it rose over the Chiltern hills before falling down to Wags Bottom and on across the Aylesbury plain.
Coal for the pumping engine was delivered by narrow boats and carried from the wharf to the engine house by horse and manpower until post WW1 when the shortage of manpower and the availability of war surplus narrow gauge railway parts made the addition of a small railway practical.
The scene modelled is just prior to WW2 when many of the canals were still active and a variety of second hand diesel and small industrial steam locomotives were being used to move coal and ash about the site. The 'enginemen's' time seems to be split between operating the railway and maintaining the locomotives in the old stables.
Another of the smaller bays houses a large collection of horticultural machinery including cultivators, an orchard sprayer, lawn mowers and other equipment.
The final picture shows the side view of the timber wagon prior to the acquisition of the stone mill.
