ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: In A Christmas Tree, why were Dickens's Christmas decorations from Wolverhampton?
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QUESTION: In A Christmas Tree, why were Dickens’s Christmas decorations from Wolverhampton?. A Christmas Tree (1850) was Charles Dickens’s ‘other’ Christmas story. It was an elderly narrator’s reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the decorations on the tree: ‘there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton), perched among the boughs’.
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A Christmas Tree (1850) was Charles Dickens’s ‘other’ Christmas story, alongside A Christmas Carol. It was an elderly narrator’s reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the decorations on the tree. . Question: Who discovered the jet streams and recognised the effect they have on global weather?.
David Barnes, Welling, Kent. Question: Why do concert drummers in rock bands have a Perspex screen around them?. Greg Zielinski, Mansfield, Notts. Q: Where is the centre of England?. S. Roja, Tonbridge, Kent. Such decorations were made from Japanned tin. Japanned refers to a decorative technique that imitated Asian lacquerwork by covering tin plate or papier mache with layers of varnish. By the Victorian era, this industry centred around Wolverhampton. It had begun life in Pontypool, South Wales, where tin-plating techniques were pioneered by the Allgood family. During the Industrial Revolution, the industry migrated to the West Midlands, where a host of manufacturers exported their wares across the Empire.
