Growing Up in High Wycombe: Chairmaking and the Stamp Factory
This book gives an account of what it was like to be brought up in the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe in the 1920’s. It describes one man’s progress from childhood to a working life within the town. Affluence in the 1920’s to near poverty in the 30’s as the depression hits hard. After the war in the 40’s to a career in the ‘Stamp Factory’ at a time when opportunity was open to all, when business in the 50’s was changing rapidly and new methods and technology were appearing at a rapid pace. An exciting time for all. Exciting at the time but totally foreign to today’s management and workforce practices, probably unrecognisable. A fascinating story of what it was like to live and work in the first half of the last century.
Published by Rare Books and Berry: Paperback.
Publication date 1st March 2008.
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ISBN: 978 0 95399 518 9
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This book gives an account of what it was like to be brought up in the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe in the 1920’s. It describes one man’s progress from childhood to a working life within the town. Affluence in the 1920’s to near poverty in the 30’s as the depression hits hard. After the war in the 40’s to a career in the ‘Stamp Factory’ at a time when opportunity was open to all, when business in the 50’s was changing rapidly and new methods and technology were appearing at a rapid pace. An exciting time for all. Exciting at the time but totally foreign to today’s management and workforce practices, probably unrecognisable. A fascinating story of what it was like to live and work in the first half of the last century.