Employees of the factory mark the retirement of John Ing after 65 years, August 1937. Benjamin North is in the centre of the middle row, Mr Ing to the right of him. Courtesy of Wycombe Museum This article was researched and written by Simon Cains for the Woodlanders’ Lives and Landscapes project, a partnership between Bucks New University and the Chilterns Conservation Board. Woodlanders’ Lives and Landscapes is part of the Chalk, Cherries and Chairs Landscape Partnership running in the Central Chilterns, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, https://www.chilternsaonb.org/woodlanders-lives.html. IN the Nostalgia page on February 5 we told how in 1853 Benjamin North built a furniture factory in West Wycombe.