Not sure what you would call this type of bucket or what age it is If you know,  pleases get in touch.
It was covered in some sort or white powdery substance when I pulled it from the skip.
My guess it was limewashed to make it watertight.

For now it will be Known
as
THE WIDDINGTON BUCKET

The bucket came off a skip  a polite word with the home owner and I was on my way home with a bundle of wood ,,,thinking to myself  if I can’t repair it, it can always go on the fire.
I started to sort the staves out one by one  I insert the staves around the hoop

Lucky for me I had marked the inside of the bucket with a wavy pencil line just before
I pull the bucket from the skip

Here you can see that this stave has an ear this will form one of the two handles

I also number the Staves as I cleaned them.For the inside I had to use a Concave scraper.Nearly all the staves are of different widths. Without the pencil mark it would have been a nightmare to reassemble. Maybe it would have ended up as firewood. I line all the staves up in their correct position.  You can just make out the wiggly pencil line on the right

Staves all cleaned up, i also painted the two hoops black.

The groove in the bottom of the staves is called a croze. The croze is cut into the Staves so the bottom or lid could  fit securely into the wooden staves. Time to reassemble; I started to insert the Staves around the hoop. The top hoop I hold up with a couple of blocks I could do with another pair of hands, Oh well keep going.

I held the hoops from the top,  this gave me a lot more control as I slip the Staves in place.  I go around position the staves I control the tension by sliding the hoops in or out this made it so easy to reassemble the bucket.
A couple of taps and we are almost done and Looking good.

You can just make out the three planks of wood that make up the bottom.
A little wax to bring out the colour and we are done.