Picket Fence design and picket Fencing contractors, Melbourne.
The
first notable picket fences were built around buildings in Melbourne in the 1850s
gold rush era, when the simple picket fence and picket gates predominated. Often these picket fences were made of basic square pickets with square chamfered gate posts. This simple picket fence style is to be preferred when designing a wooden picket fence and gate for an inner city workers cottage. The rise of industrialisation brought shaped metal blades on wheels turned by pulleys, which enabled ornate profiled wooden pickets to be cut, along with turned post capitals. It wasn't until the 1880's
that Melbourne really came into it's own as one
of the world's great Victorian cities, when these more elaborate picket fence styles set the scene. The increasing wealth also gave rise to wooden joinery feature gates. See our wooden gates page. Industrialisation brought cast iron fretwork and post capitals, the Angelina cast iron post capital being a prime example of the style. This
trend was felt right through to the 1920's as Melbourne
stayed faithful to it's British roots. The resulting
legacy is an abundance of Victorian architecture,
which still remains after
a century of development. Returning soldiers from the first world war brought back French, Japanese and American influences, when the art deco and Californian bungalow movements saw less formal gardens and picket fences with capping or woven wire. See our Californian Bungalow and Woven Wire pages for these fences and gates. As established fencing contractors, we have been building timber
picket fences for 25 years, and can provide you with a picket fence and gate design which will suit your period home.
Call us now for a free measure and quote.
We can reproduce the original picket fence from an old
photograph, or use our experience to produce an appropriate
picket fence and gate design.
(Click on any of the pictures on this page to see a
larger version)
