A walk down to the Ipswich River for a bucket of washing water on a Stream Team project got an old Closeteer going on about the wooden buckets of his boyhood on the farm. Some wag who’d heard ...

When it comes to the very niche subject of wooden buckets, there is very little Alan Paulus does not know. He is thought to be one of the only professional wooden bucket makers left in the UK and ...

A wooden bucket, made by a cooper in much the same way, didn’t have a lid and was shaped in the opposite style. A firkin was narrower at the top and wider at the bottom.

After 20 years of making decorative wooden buckets, barrels and store displays, you'd think Mike Morin would have seen and done everything possible with a barrel. Not so, says the president and ...

As well as bucket making – known as domestic coopering – Mr Paulus is also a wheelwright, which involves making wooden wheels for carriages, carts, cannons and bicycles.