During the 1800s, a massive chair industry emerged around High Wycombe changing the Chilterns forever. Before this, the beech woods were mainly coppiced, allowing sunlight in. By Victorian times ...
The site was previously home to a chair factory that contributed to High Wycombe's once-booming furniture industry ...
High Wycombe built an arch decorated with chairs in 1877 to welcome Queen Victoria The "rich chairmaking history" of a town is being showcased through a new walking trail. High Wycombe became the ...
An aerospace firm has got the go-ahead to knock down buildings at an old chair factory and create ... the industrial site in Abercromby Avenue, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Cherries and Chairs Landscape Partnership. The Chilterns, and High Wycombe in particular, was home to chairmakers and bodgers – men who worked in the woods to turn parts and legs for chairs.