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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 334698, member: 29&quot;]Well now. They weren&#039;t made in Windsor, but in and around High Wycombe, which is some way away in a different county - maybe twenty miles? There&#039;s a museum to them there. <a href="http://www.kraftinwood.com/high-wycombe-chair-making-museum/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kraftinwood.com/high-wycombe-chair-making-museum/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kraftinwood.com/high-wycombe-chair-making-museum/</a> and also another one here: <a href="http://wycombemuseum.org.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wordpress/collections/chair-and-furniture-industry/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wycombemuseum.org.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wordpress/collections/chair-and-furniture-industry/" rel="nofollow">http://wycombemuseum.org.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wordpress/collections/chair-and-furniture-industry/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Good bit of history here: <a href="https://www.wycombe.gov.uk/pages/Sports-leisure-and-tourism/Tourism/Furniture-making-in-Wycombe.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wycombe.gov.uk/pages/Sports-leisure-and-tourism/Tourism/Furniture-making-in-Wycombe.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.wycombe.gov.uk/pages/Sports-leisure-and-tourism/Tourism/Furniture-making-in-Wycombe.aspx</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s neat about it is that my parents owned chairs made by E Gomme, which they bought new in the 1950s. Some of the companies are still going. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s sites which claim they&#039;re called after Windsor because they were made there, but that&#039;s not true. It&#039;s possible that people who commissioned them were based there, but that&#039;s a bit lost in history. They&#039;re certainly High Wycombe&#039;s history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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