Wycombe's Wonderful Trade

Notes:

First edition 2011. Compendium of information re furniture trade: '... history of the chair and furniture manufacturers and allied trades of High Wycombe as traced through the trade and local press over the period of eighty years, 1885-1970 (concentrating especially on the years of the trades's dominance from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War) together with a listing of many of the leading companies, their owners and their families, and some news-worthy employees ...'. In three parts, by far the largest being profiles of 'The firms, the founders, their families and some newsworthy employees' [pp35-447]. The other parts are a history of the industry and a timeline of the industry