Custom Built
At Barkers, we specialise in creating tailored solutions to meet your requirements. Our senior designer has over 25 years experience in the Marquee Manufacture and Hire Industry and has designed and implemented a wide range of innovative structures.
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Here are some examples of our work to date.
 | Boat awning - richmond bridgeWe were asked to make an awning for a college barge that was being converted into a restaurant. The problem was that the upper deck was required as a summer dining area |
We made an elegantly curved roof with a canvas cover - shaped to the boat deck.The awning was fixed into the existing handrail, saving space and keeping it simple.
 | The Biggest Dress in the WorldSPEAK Community Network, a campaign group who were drawing attention to the plight of third world textile workers, came to Barkers Marquees with a problem. Their dress kept filling up and leaking. |
Barkers Marquees stopped the ponding and increased the structure's stability by a combination of adding anchorage points, redesigning the eave detailing and increasing the wall pole height. To stop the leakage we recommended reproofing the seams using Grangers' Fabseal Gold.
| | Shackleton Film - Polar Expedition in 1912Firstsight Films came to us with a problem. How to create Sir Ernest Shackleton's tents - in shape, size, colour and movement - with no drawings and little data to go on, as the great man himself had designed them?! |
To design these tents we studied old photographs, looked for references in the team's diaries, estimated sizes by scaling known heights of the men who were standing next to the tents, found old MOD specifications for Artic Hospital tents and looked at surviving movie footage.
| We researched a wide number of fabrics trying to find one that would match the original's colour and movement in windy conditions. It was impossible to use the original rattan used for the structural hoops and bamboo didn't give the correct shape, so the film company went ahead with a set of bamboo for internal shots only. |
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With approval for the fabric given in early March, it was a race to produce these tents for mid April when they were loaded onto a ship bound for Greenland!
The film was shown on Channel Four in January 2002, starring Kenneth Branagh......and starred our tents in many Icebound shots!!
 | Great Circle CanopyBarkers Marquees worked with Geodesics Unlimited to prototype these eye catching structures. These domes were constructed using a glass fibre rod frame, aluminium nodes and footings with PU coated nylon covers making them lightweight and durable.
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