THE CORONATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 31 May 1911, Page 4

THE CORONATION.

a A London correspondent writes:— The "rent wave of industry caused by the. Coronation activities washes into many out-of-the-way corners, and will l>e sure to reach the lonely cottages amongst the Chilterns where the making of chairs is for ever going on. Six thousand chairs are wanted for Westminster Ahhov, and no douht Iligh Wycombe will provide them. And tins means that in that neighbourhood all the chairmakers will I o land at work. Rich man has .'ns part in the making, ns is seen ivv too piiv. of chair Ipgs reared up agun.-n c >t-

taga walls, as if. ni c"i v ('l'i'.inn cf the •ffiibl wiil conic* akmg end 1 udd ;;.ir.tlas \\ ith ilimn. Quito close to •;Ufcago in a email shed tho m ujr-leg make: fits clown on tho old-fasluou-xi “shaving-horse,” something in shape like a double lines, tlio opera lor mt--liug on tho narrow end. fha length of wood—l 7 inches for chair legs, 15 for runnings—is then shaved I y the horse into the rough shape of a chair log, and a lathe brings it. into finer shape. The final touches are g.ven hy hand, with the help dr about five tools. Tho ciiairmakers in tho C hiltorns have worked i/n ,! r, from time immemorial. Tlio forest lies all round tho cottages, and the air from tho hills blows through An sheds.