Topic: Parozone pressed glass measure

[chriscooper]

A photo of the base Pamela....

https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/ParozoneGlassMeasureBaseShot?authkey=Gv1sRgCKjruJDeqrKGcg#5649255945214199634

Interesting Anne, I promise I will read it all tonight, use the photo by all means can you 'grab' it or do you want  me to eMail it as a file.

Chris :sun:

[Anne]

Thanks Chris, I can lift copies from here for the RD album.

Incidentally, I found a mention last night that Portland Glass Co. Ltd became a part of the Rockware Group in 1958...

Portland Glass Company of Irvine, Ayrshire which was used to serve the needs of its Scottish customers in the spirits, soft drinks, dairy and food industries.

(Source: The Monopolies and Mergers Commission report: Rockware Group Limited, United Glass Limited, Redfearn National Glass Limited, A Report on the Proposed Mergers. Presented to Parliament in pursuance of Section 83 of the Fair Trading Act 1973. Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 3rd May, 1978. London. Her Majesty's Stationery Office.)

[chriscooper]

Rockware glass, brings back a few memories Anne, along with Greggs and Jacksons in Ferrybridge a tiny village with about 4 glassworks, chemical works, iron foundries a coal mine. The huge Lumb's glass works in nearby Castleford with it's pottery works the giant Hickson and Welch chemical plant now gone and Mackies now Nestle soon to close all the coal mines long gone, so had to diversify and now work in plastic blow moulding ironically where 40 men over 4 shifts can easily make 1 million bothery plastic bottles a day without even breaking sweat,
Sorry rambling on again must stop doing that :pb:

Chris :sun:

[Anne]

Small world Chris, my OH used to work at Hiccup and Belch (as he calls it!) in one of the labs (industrial chemist) and was born and raised in Castleford. He was shocked to hear that it's gone!

The MMC report makes interesting reading about the glass industry in 1976. It's downloadable from the MMC website.

[chriscooper]

The good old days Anne or were they we used to laugh and joke with a guy who worked in the plant I think that made weedkiller? used take is socks off and his feet were green and ridicule us miners for wearing mascara and eye shadow where the coal dust had collected. A lot of them are prematurely gone and I am left with chronic Bronchitis so probably not so good after all.

Chris