Monument record 0851800000 - Site of former Elliott's furniture factory, Desborough Road

Summary

Demolished furniture factory, late nineteenth-early twentieth century

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  • FURNITURE FACTORY (20th Century to Modern - 1900 AD to 1930 AD)

Description

Redeveloped site at 267 Desborough Road, formerly the furniture factory of James Elliott & Sons. Now offices called the Apollo Centre. The firm had another factory in Shaftesbury Street, a traditional brick and timber chair workshop now demolished and partly reassembled at the Chiltern Open Air Museum. The form or date of the factory in Desborough Road is not known; it is shown on the 1924 OS map as lying behind houses fronting Desborough Road (B1).

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  • <1>SBC22738 Digital archive: Marian Miller. 2006. Database of Furnture Factories in High Wycombe. PD86.

Location

Grid reference SU 85609 93314 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 18 2025 9:25PM

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