Monthly Archives: June 2025

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27 June 2025 – Chairs at Wycombe Museum

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Members may be interested to know that BAFRA (British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association) has arranged a visit to the Wycombe Museum https://wycombemuseum.org.uk the morning of Friday 27thJune 2025 where, at 11am,  we will have a talk on Chairmaking in the Chilterns by curator Catherine Grigg followed by a tour of the chairs and hopefully the opportunity to examine more closely some of the exhibits there.  We would like to meet for lunch somewhere and then are planning to move on to High Wycombe Chair Making Museum CIC –https://www.kraftinwood.com/ for a guided tour by Robert Bishop.

If anyone fancies even more Chair related activity there is the option to do the chair trail –https://wycombemuseum.org.uk/here-chair-everywhere-heritage-walking-trail at their leisure.

This is free to BAFRA members with a nominal charge of £10 for non-members (lunch not included)

To book your place please contact Diane at Head Office headoffice@bafra.org.uk 01939 210826

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Chair of the Month – June 2025

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June’s chair of the month is this joined chair made in South Lancashire or Cheshire 1685-1720, at least 100 years before High Wycombe’s Windsor chair making industry was established.

Joined chairs are made by fixing the wood together with joints such as mortice and tenons. Windsor chairs use turned, stick-like back and leg parts that are fixed into holes in the seat. See our article What Is A Windsor Chair?  for more about on Windsor chairs.

Most of the chairs held by Wycombe Museum are from the High Wycombe area, but a few, like this one, are from other English chair making regions. Each chair making region shares design and making characteristics. Find out more about Reginal Furniture with the Regional Furniture Society.

Museum staff are in the process of adding chair records to Wycombe Museum’s selection of online records with the help of funding from the Regional Furniture Society. This chair is one of the new additions. You can search the records at the link below.

Search Our Chair Collection

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Regional Furniture Society: Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025

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This year we are again going to offer the possibility of joining the AGM by Zoom.

The 41st Annual General Meeting will be held at the University of Aberdeen in the Linklater Rooms, Elphinstone Hall, Old Aberdeen Campus on Sunday 6 July 2025 at 9.00 am

The Agenda, the Minutes of the AGM held in 2024 and the Annual Report & Accounts for 2024 have been posted on the website today, and will be available at the Conference/AGM on 6 July.

Members who wish to take part in the AGM via Zoom should email the Secretary on: david@davidfletchervaluer.co.uk

The Secretary will then forward to those members the access code for the Zoom meeting, the Agenda, the Minutes of the AGM held in 2024, and the Annual Report & Accounts for 2024. This will be done a week before the meeting.

The Annual Report and Accounts for 2024 can also be sent to any member requiring a paper version. They should contact the Secretary to request a copy and should send an A4 self-addressed envelope.

David Fletcher

Secretary

6 June 2025