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Identify the 37 glassworks existing in 1696 in England and Wales

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Frank:
Buckleys book was published in 1925 so is not necessarily correct, it will appear in the Glass-Study in due course.

The SGT have published it as a POD book, interestingly while you can still buy it at list price it sell second hand often for more than it is produced. Odd as surely price is dependant on demand and supply and supply is unlimited!

flying free:
Quote '- Harlestones Glasshouse, Coalbournbrook c1692 - ?1783 (or later)'


It appears from this article that Harlestones glasshouse fell down (literally) in 1785
http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/ancestral-delvings-reveal-clearcut-links-wordsleys-ancient-glass-industry/story-20120354-detail/story.html

'By this time, the Harlestones Glassworks were becoming dilapidated, and in 1785 it was reported that "the glasshouse of Mr George Ensell of Coalbournbrook fell almost entirely in ruins to the ground."
Read more at http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/ancestral-delvings-reveal-clearcut-links-wordsleys-ancient-glass-industry/story-20120354-detail/story.html#tk5D4BFbyzJI2Dmh.99'

However, there are some odd date discrepancies in the story otherwise (might be print errors).

SocGlassTech:
SGT collected Buckley's papers from Journal of the Society of Glass Technology into one volume, Old English Glasshouses
Contents:
Note on the Glasshouses of the Leeds District in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Early Nineteenth Centuries   1
Glasshouses on the Wear in the Eighteenth Century   14
Glasshouses on the Tyne in the Eighteenth Century   24
The Early Glasshouses of Bristol   67
Old Nottingham Glasshouses   107
Cumberland Glasshouses   113
Notes on the Glasshouses of Stourbridge   117
The Glasshouses of Dudley and Worcester   145
The Birmingham Glass Trade: 1740–1833   155
Old London Glasshouses. I. Southwark   174
Notes on Various Glasshouses   194
West Country Glasshouses   204
Old Lancashire Glasshouses   213

sph@ngw:
May I add a note about The Falcon Stairs glass works that has just come to my attention?
AKA Falcon Glass WQorks
to the South East of Blackfriars bridge at what used to be a Thames crossing , the Falcon Stairs ( near Flacon Inn pub).
Founded by Francis Jackson and John Shaw in 1693, making " the best and finest drinking glasses and curious glassess for ornament and likewise all sorts of glass bottles" In 18th c the first glass house was known as "The Falcon" and the bottle house as "the Cockpit".
The well known London glass cutter Jerom Jackson was associated with these works in 1757,perhaps as a partner. It is probable that the works were taken over by  Hughes, Hall and Company in 1752 and remained in use until 1780. Stephen Hall then left Falcon Stairs and for the Whitefriars Glasshouse and the " Cockpit" was abandoned.
Although not named as the Falcon Glass House, between 1752-1768 a glass house was run by William Barnes & Company. Flint glass (ie lead was made there  from 1774).
it was closed in 1814, when Green & Pellat then owners, moved to Holland Street by the Blackfriars Road.Excavations unearthed a mid 18th C furnace, siege, and associated buildings foundations.

It is believed that Stephen hall, was father of Henry hall, who daughter Caroline married  Charles Henry Kempton III
He taught him to make glass  at Paradise Street  which became the  Albert Glass Works.

sph@ngw:

--- Quote from: Anne on September 27, 2007, 01:02:10 PM ---As a breakaway from the post about the Glassworks in Swansea here http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,17546.0.html I'd like to pursue trying to identify the 37 glassworks in England and Wales in 1696. Please add to the list and we can try and put together record of who, where these early glassworks were.
 * Note: Sometimes also seen as Mansell
Anne,
With great respect there are in fact 88 glass houses identifed in the year 1696 on page 457 pf Albert Hartshorne' "Englsih Glasses" of which I have recentl; acquired a rare First edition.
They are headed as "Houghton's Letters For the Improvement of Commerce and Trade First published in 1683 AND UPDATED 1696.
THEY ARE LISEDT BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA, SO LONDON & SOUTHWARK HAVE 24, AND THEN ARE BROKEN DOWN BY , 9 FOR BOTTLES, 2 FOR LOOKING GLASS PLATES , 4 CROWN GLASS AND PLATES, 9 FLINT GLASS AND ORDINARY,
The remaining 64 are then given by county , so Stourbridge Worcestershire has 17. I was amused to see one in The Isle of Wight, and of course at Kings Lynn, and 11 in Newcastle.


Marcus also sent me these to start the list off:

London:

Aldgate, Old Broad Street, Crosswall Street, Bankside

John Baker's Vauxhall works, which may be the antecedent of Nazeing Glass

John Bellingham,  also at Vauxhall

Duke of Buckingham's works at Vauxhall and Greenwich.

Gloucestershire:

Woodchester, Newent, Newham upon Severn and Gloucester,

Midlands:

Amblecote, Wordsley and Brierley Hill.






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