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The world's finest hand made rocking horses and expert rocking horse restoration for Suffolk. Low-cost collection and delivery of Suffolk rocking horses for restoration and repair.

Suffolk rocking horses includes restoration, refurbishment and renovation for the Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds areas of Suffolk. 

If you live in or near any of the following towns in Suffolk, we will be pleased to assist you with the restoration of your rocking horse: Aldeburgh‎, Beccles, Brandon, Bungay, Bury St Edmunds, Clare, Eye, Felixstowe, Framlingham‎, Hadleigh, Halesworth, Haverhill, Ipswich, Leiston, Lowestoft. We are horse makers and restorers for Mildenhall, Needham Market, Newmarket, Saxmundham, Southwold, Stowmarket, Sudbury, Woodbridge and many other areas and can restore your favourite rocking horse to fine health.

Dick Burmby was a rocking horse maker who lived in Hitcham, Suffolk. Although Dick Burmby rocking horses are no longer made and the maker has retired, we are able to offer a full restoration, renovation and refurbishment service for a Dick Burmby rocking horse.

The Suffolk rocking horse maker and Suffolk rocking horse restorer is part of Kensington Rocking Horse Company. Traditional hand made rocking horses are personally delivered to Suffolk with leather rocking horse bridle and saddle and horsehair mane and tail. These are fine traditional Victorian-style UK Suffolk wooden hand carved rocking horses which are individually hand carved by skilled craftsmen in the UK in the traditional Suffolk fashion. Carving tools such as the mallet and gouge are used by the rocking horse makers. The Kensington Rocking Horse Company is able to offer the rocking horse Suffolk buyer in the UK and overseas a unique range of hand carved rocking horses including the dapple grey.

Rocking horses for Suffolk rocking horse restoration or repair may need extensive repairs. Suffolk rocking horse restoration by experiences restorers who undertake Suffolk rocking horse renovation.

In the old days, the basic structure of the rocking horse was wood, and it was carved in several pieces and then pegged together before being covered with a thin layer of a plaster-like substance called gesso. The paintwork usually represented a dappled grey, although animal skins, often deer or calf, were also used as a covering. The rockers were often painted green to resemble grass. Rocking horse repair Suffolk will repair and renovate your rocking horse. The horse's features were usually painted, although glass eyes were sometimes inserted into the heads. That is familiar to the rocking horse restorer in Suffolk. Saddles and bridles of leather had metal bits and stirrups so that the child could accustom himself to the riding position. Manes and tails were frequently made of real horse hair, which was cheaper and more realistic than carving. Suffolk rocking horse renovation by the rocking horse repairer who restores Suffolk rocking horses.

Our Suffolk rocking horse restorers restore J. Collinson & Sons, Lines Brothers, F. H. Ayres, J. R. Smith, G & J Lines rocking horses from Suffolk. Ayres Sports Goods, Crossley Brothers, Haddon Rockers and Patterson Edwards Leeway are amongst the Suffolk rocking horses that can be renovated, as are Horseplay, formerly of Devon.