The Burbo Bank single bed.
£500.
Currently on display as part of the sculpture trail at Ladygreen Garden Centre in Ince Blundell.
This very decorative piece seemed to be a wooden pediment, perhaps from a ship. I did think at first that it may have been from one of the houses washed into the sea at Burbo Bank in Crosby, but photographs on the Sefton Council website show them to be far too modest in construction. The other possibility is that it is from the landfill along this part of the coast: apparently much of the landfill comes from mills and factories demolished in the North West. (Again, there's that combination of the industrial and the maritime which I find so enticing.) Whichever, it was an obvious candidate for a headboard, not least because the wood at the top had been eroded into a series of wave shapes.
Not only do I like the texture of the top surface, I think the grain of the exposed wood is especially attractive.
The legs and uprights for the headboard are pitch pine, but the sides and bottom are made from one very long plank of an indeterminate hardwood I bought from a reclamation yard.
The top and bottom planks have a mortise and tenon joint right through the legs, as can be seen, and are then glued and dowelled. The sides have the usual bolted mortise and tenon joints.
This picture shows the sixteen points where the headboard is bolted to the bed frame, plus the slots into which the side beams fit.
The end result is the very Gothic looking Henge 4.