Our Shed at the Gordon League Rugby Club Gloucester have completed the renovation of the Pittville Park’s playground Dove Airliner model.
This Play Plane is built from High Density Polyethylene as a memorial to
an aircraft maintenance engineer and is located in the playground at The Boathouse Cafe in Pittville Park, replacing an earlier version built in plywood.
Front View Model Plane Pitville Park
Model Dove Plane
Our team from Men in Sheds have completed the replacement of an existing timber shed for the Greatfield Park Primary School. This involved dismantling an old timber shed and building a replacement tin shed.
Original Timber prior to dismantling
Greatfield School dismantled shed
New Metal Shed Greatfield School
The most difficult part of constructing the new shed was moving it’s heavy metal base into position, this involved a lot of physical effort by a group of people from the school staff and the men in sheds team working together.
Just completed for the Shurdington Scout group, a project for the construction of a timber hut for the scouts’ outdoor activities.
Shurdington Scout Hut- Start of Construction
Constructing Frame
Finished Scout Hut with Solar Panel for lighting
Scout Hut lit by Solar powered Lights
An electric guitar constructed by Graham the Men in Sheds Cheltenham music expert and craftsman .
Electric Guitar
Completed Electric Guitar
The Gloucester men in sheds team assisted the Gloucester City Council in the planning and restoration of the bird aviary in Gloucester Park. See Facebook Gloucester City Council 3rd December 2021 post
The team repainted the structure, produced the murals and constructed the wooden flower planters
Repainting
Mural
Planter
Phil the mural painter
Birds inspecting new surroundings
Another Milestone for Me in Sheds reached, our team have fitted the first of three sections of a Mud Kitchen
The Team
It Fits Here
Fitted Out
We recently assisted the Cotswold Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) in setting up their charity shops in Tewkesbury and Longlevens Gloucester. We carried out decorating, fitting shelving displays and constructed retail furniture for the shop sites.
Decorating Tewksbury shop
Shelf Supports
Cash Desk constructed by Men in Sheds
Please see the Youtube video of our shed and team at the Butterfly Garden, kindly provided by a Third-year student journalist at the University of Gloucestershire.
Click on link: Men in Sheds Cheltenham
At short notice the Butterfly Garden Shed team produce an easel for a presentation at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
Easel construction in workshop
Easel in Use at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
Our team at the Butterfly Garden Shed have produced the first of a series of planters for the Bishops Cleeve Parish Council.
Planter Bishop Cleeve
Salvation Army Prayer Box
Made for the Salvation Army Community Church Cheltenham by the Men in Sheds, The box is used for any prayer requests which are sent to the Prayer Team.
The link below is to a short video made recently at the Cheltenham – Butterfly Garden Shed . The video was made by a 3rd year journalism student from Gloucester University. As part of her coursework focussing on Cheltenham clubs and societies.