We continue to delve into the fascinating lives of the tambour beading girls in Holmer Green and beyond, with Susan Holmes' latest Woodlanders Lives' and Landscapes blog
Chalk, Cherries and Chairs’ Chilterns Women Conference in March was sold out, with 125 people attending on International Women’s Day...
We continue to delve into the fascinating lives of the tambour beading girls in Holmer Green and beyond, with Susan Holmes' latest Woodlanders Lives' and Landscapes blog
Part one of Susan Holmes' investigation into this craft of the Chilterns, starting with the stories of Holmer Green, the Missendens, the Kingshills and Hazlemere.
Throughout the nineteenth century, many residents of Buckland parish worked in the straw plaiting industry.
Find out what Susan Holmes discovered during a recent research trip to London and enjoy some amazing photographs of the delicate and intricate Chilterns craft of Tambour Beading!
Follow the journey of the Batchelors through the Chilterns, the straw plait industry, vaccination programmes and controversies of the 1870s and much more in this fascinating piece of research.
Enjoy this fascinating and in-depth family history researched by Richard Ayres, of the Hatch family of chairmakers and their lives in the Chilterns. A longer blog this time, to sit down with a cup of tea/coffee and enjoy the wonderful photographs of the family as well!
The representative of the firm stated that they wished Tilbury put back. A band-sawyer was a skilled man, and he cut the wood up for the whole of the other employees. If the man was put back six months, preparations might be made...
The pub’s connection with chairmaking began with William Hearne, a young agricultural labourer, born in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, who is said to have sold his first carefully made Windsor chair made from local English beech and elm in 1840...
