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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.
 
'''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.
  
At Great Hampden the estate owned acres of farmed woodlands with its own sawmill.
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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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Latest revision as of 11:41, 25 November 2024

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.

Bodgers World 14.jpg

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.



Bodgers World 03.jpg
Chair Turning.jpg
Timberbob
Bodgers World 13.jpg
Bodgers World 01.jpg