Flagging up a Great Hinge from Cooke Brothers

When Sterling Property Management needed replacements for a batch of ageing entrance door hinges on one of their residential apartment blocks on the Isle of Man, they turned to Cooke Brothers. The original flag hinges were rusty, worn, and no longer available off the shelf, but still doing a vital job. Cookes’ brief was to replicate them exactly using modern production standards.

The team reverse-engineered the original hinge, working from samples provided by the client. The result was a batch of robust stainless steel flag hinges, each one precision-made with a bespoke hole pattern and specially cut notches that allow the hinge to slide into the aluminium door frame and lock securely into place.

With decades of engineering expertise and a dedicated in-house technical and manufacturing team, Cooke Brothers is one of the few UK hinge manufacturers able to take on this kind of bespoke work that combines old-style hinge know-how with today’s modern production technology. Whether it’s one-off restorations or short-run manufacturing, Cooke Brothers makes custom hardware that works exactly how you need it to.