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[[File:Bodgers World Map.jpg|thumb|Map by Maurice (Mosh) Saunders]] | [[File:Bodgers World Map.jpg|thumb|Map by Maurice (Mosh) Saunders]] | ||
'''The bodgers made legs and spindles for backs of Windsor Chairs''' for which High Wycombe became a famous centre - the chairs mostly being marketed through Windsor. | '''The bodgers made legs and spindles for backs of Windsor Chairs''' for which High Wycombe became a famous centre - the chairs mostly being marketed through Windsor. | ||
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| + | '''The local bodgers worked in Hampden Woods''', after the Parish Woodlands in Loosley Row, Lacey Green and Speen had been felled. A very few small pockets of trees still survived but they were privately owned. | ||
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| + | In his book Children in a Bodger's World, Mosh Saunders describes the bodgers work in Hampden Woods in detail. | ||
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| + | [[File:Bodgers World 09.jpg|center|thumb|Timberbob]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:41, 25 November 2024
The bodgers made legs and spindles for backs of Windsor Chairs for which High Wycombe became a famous centre - the chairs mostly being marketed through Windsor.
The local bodgers worked in Hampden Woods, after the Parish Woodlands in Loosley Row, Lacey Green and Speen had been felled. A very few small pockets of trees still survived but they were privately owned.
In his book Children in a Bodger's World, Mosh Saunders describes the bodgers work in Hampden Woods in detail.
