High Wycombe Furniture College
Bucks new university in high wycombe northwest of london announced last month it will cease recruitment for its renowned undergraduate programmes in furniture design and there will be no new.
High wycombe furniture college. His final year thesis contributed to his life long adventure testing the boundaries of what can be achieved in timber. In 1999 we were awarded university college status by the government and became known as buckinghamshire chilterns university college. Wycombe technical institute but i have looked at them carefully and i am certain they are pictures taken at the old tech. In 1975 high wycombe college of art and technology merged with the newland park college of education in chalfont st giles and was renamed the buckinghamshire college of higher education.
High wycombe became a centre for the furniture making industry and estimates say that around 80 of all the nation s wooden chairs were made in the town during the 1960s. Stewart linford s passion for woodwork started at school he studied furniture making and wood science at high wycombe college in the early 1970s. Adding a further sense of caring are the health and social care and child care students who make up the smaller but perfectly formed campus. The legends mostly say almost certainly.
The 1920s photos i have added above i have harvested from the high wycombe furniture archive which is held by the buckinghamshire new university or wycombe college as we knew it. In the same decade missenden abbey a former augustinian monastery founded in 1133 was acquired and in may 1988 it was officially opened as a management centre by prince richard duke of gloucester.