The Carriage Foundation, registered charity 1162356

The Carriage Foundation, registered charity 1162356 A group of carriage experts and enthusiasts currently involved with the exciting project 'Carriages

In 1991 a small group of horse drawn carriage enthusiasts came together to form The Carriage Foundation. The aim of the organisation was and still is to preserve and promote the care, preservation and interpretation of carriages as an integral part of the history of transport. Over the coming years new members joined and the founder members were able to share their knowledge and expertise with oth

ers ensuring a continuation of specialists in the field of horse drawn carriages. Representatives now offer advice to organisations worldwide. Recently core members have been considering how the organisation can be more beneficial to a wider public audience. With the Charity Commission recently granting The Carriage Foundation charitable status, we now aim to manage, support and seek funding for various carriage related projects. Initially a website will be created which will host our first major project: ‘Carriages of Britain’. The project will consist of a searchable and illustrated database of carriages within UK collections, essays, and a photographic archive. Initial work has identified over 1200 carriages in publically accessible collections which will all have an entry on the database. ‘Carriages of Britain’ will become the first port of call for anyone wishing to research horse drawn vehicles. Further developing our work, The Carriage Foundation are hosting a series of study days through the winter as well as the two established study tours. Long term plans are to explore the possibility of founding a National Carriage Museum. If anyone would like to find out more about our work or be involved with our projects with research or financial support please do make contact.

Amy is trying to digest her week in Cambridge. It was so incredibly exciting being at the Cambridge University Library a...
29/06/2026

Amy is trying to digest her week in Cambridge. It was so incredibly exciting being at the Cambridge University Library and the Hamilton Kerr Institute. There is a lot to report, she needs to get a mini report into The Pilgrim Trust asap, then there will be updates on what was discovered.

What she can say is that the paint pigments are consistent to those used in the mid 18th century, confirming that the Baskerville Landau does not date from the late 17th century as previously believed and published.

This is an outstanding project to be working on and one that has so much more to give and explore.

Here is a little 3D video of the door. The full 3D scan will be available on the University of Cambridge Library website in due course.

We are at Lymm transport day today pop along to see us.
28/06/2026

We are at Lymm transport day today pop along to see us.

15/06/2026
We are absolutely delighted to announce that The Carriage Foundation have been awarded a grant of £3500 from The Pilgrim...
03/06/2026

We are absolutely delighted to announce that The Carriage Foundation have been awarded a grant of £3500 from The Pilgrim Trust.

This grant is specifically for the Dandy Carriages project - the two carriages in the Nottingham Industrial Museum that belonged to John Baskerville.

We have been working really hard researching the carriages and forming a plan to send them home to Birmingham. In two weeks time a door from the Landau will head off to the University of Cambridge, to their library where specialist digital imaging will take place and then on to the Hamilton Kerr Institute at the Fitzwilliam Museum where the paintwork will be analysed.

Hopefully we will find out lots of interesting things about the carriage, a full report will be published.

There is an update on this exciting project in the next issue of The Whiffle Tree which is shortly to be published.

So much has been going on with the CF of late, we are now getting back to normal following a period of stress! This grant and being able to kick start a massive and important project is just what we all needed to boost moral!

02/05/2026

Our website is currently down for maintenance. Hopefully it will be back up and running in the next week or so.

Apologies for this.

Address

9 Davenport Road
Darley Dale
CV56QR

Telephone

07762 930989

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