Topic: Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc

[Frank]

These images cover Norton Park and Penicuik in 1974 and 1975

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[Adam]

Thanks for those, Frank.  Some details of the presses were interesting and also the fact that the good, old-fashioned corrugated iron shades have still not been replaced by something trendy!

Adam D.

[Frank]

It must look mind-blowingly chaotic to the uninitiated and a world away from admiring the end products in isolation from the processes behind their creation.

[Frank]

Several of the workers have now been named in the pictures, including John Lawrie from ECA.