Charles Washing and Racist Furniture

This is a fascinating history of Charles Washing, his family and furniture business. It's fiction based on fact. It traces the plight of his parents, a full blood Chinaman and English Jewess mother in the 1850's, escaping their respective homelands and settling in Ararat, Victoria. They raised 10 kids against the odds, moving to Creswick and Melbourne before settling in Perth and establishing Washing Brothers Furniture Factory. The Factories Act was a desperate attempt by the Government to ...