Chesham Industry

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Water Lane, Chesham. Chimney demolition in 1968. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Water Lane, Chesham. Factory and chimney, about 1912. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Chesham. Exterior view. About 1920. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Water Lane, Chesham (formerly a bark mill). Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Chesham. A consignment of wooden hoops and spades loaded onto a Metropolitan Railway cart in 1914 (ref. Hunt, J 'Chesham a Pictorial History', 1997, Phillimore). Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Chesham. Men making wooden hoops. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Chesham. Interior view with men making hoops. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	William Wright & Sons, Chesham. Interior view with men sawing wood. Photograph courtesy of Mavis Smith.

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File comment:	Household brushes ready for packing at Beechwood's brush factory in Higham Road, around 1920. Photograph courtesy of Peter Hawkes - Ray East Collection.

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File comment:	Finishing paint brushes at Beechwood's brush factory, around 1920. Photograph courtesy of Peter Hawkes - Ray East Collection.

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File comment:	Adding the bristles to brushes for the painting and decorating trade at Beechwood Ltd, Higham Road. Photograph courtesy of Peter Hawkes - Ray East Collection.

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File comment:	Beechwoods Brushes, girls at work. 1920s or 1930s. Photograph courtesy of Jean Sabatini.

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