Kemp (1910)
Kemp, -
Bacon Street, Chiltern Street, London; furniture makers (fl.c.1910)
According to the reminiscences of cabinet maker Arthur Harding (b.1886), the Kemp family bought big tobacco barrels and made them into round tables. ‘They had proper workshops all round Bacon Street, Chiltern Street, and they employed people. They were biggish people, but they used to spend their money on beer, so they didn’t become millionaires’.
Source: Kirkham, Mace, Porter, Furnishing the World. The East London Furniture Trade 1830-1980 (1987).
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