Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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158
BRITAIN AT WORK,
FRAMING ROOM.
healthier than those which obtain in the
neighbourhood of Curtain Road, the centre
of the London furniture trade. At Wycombe
the men may work in the sunlight, within sight
of the wooded slopes of the Buckingham-
shire hills, and within sound of innumerable
singing birds, while in their homes there is
no lack of “ room to live,” for each family
has its own cottage, and each cottage its
strip of garden. And the Buckinghamshire
chair-maker pays no more for his cottage
and garden than the London workman often
does for a single room. Work is fairly
regular, but should trade be very slack the
workman can often tide over the hard times
by getting a job at a neighbouring farm.
In view of these comparatively favourable
conditions, it is not surprising that many
London workmen who have wandered to
High Wycombe in search of work should
have settled down permanently in the
town- Hugh B. Philpott.