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High Wycombe Chair Making Museum

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The High Wycombe Chair Making Museum in High Wycombe, England, houses a collection of antique tools, and explains the process of how the bodgers worked in the woods through to the finished Windsor chairs. It is now run as a community interest company.

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High Wycombe Chair Making Museum
Grafton Street,

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HP12 3EX , Castlefield (High Wycombe Community Board, Sands)
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