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Author Topic: Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc  (Read 940 times)

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Offline Frank

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Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc
« on: October 24, 2010, 05:03:28 PM »
These images cover Norton Park and Penicuik in 1974 and 1975

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Re: Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 10:37:50 AM »
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of the presses were interesting and also the fact that the good, old-fashioned corrugated iron shades have still not been replaced by something trendy!

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Re: Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 11:13:07 AM »
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.

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Re: Edinburgh Crystal photos Pressing Blowing Finishing etc
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 02:55:05 PM »
Several of the workers have now been named in the pictures, including John Lawrie from ECA.

 

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