Topic: Angus & Greener on Trimdon Street, Sunderland

[madweasel]

Colourless fragments from [205.

[Sally]

Hi all,
It's great John that you are now able to post some results of your dig. I think it was you who asked me about Waltons.
(Maybe an autocorrect changed "French/Walton" to "French/Watson"?)
I am away from home at the moment so can't look out my paper files on the Waltons, to engage with the topic, but will pick it up when I get home.
If any of the Sunderland glass is from the time Waltons had it, it would be the first glass I have heard of that's been found. There's bound to be some under the garage in Newton-le-Willows (Lancashire) which stands on top of their long-standing site there but who knows when that would ever be excavated. Waltons made glass on that site (N-le-W) from early 1870s to about 1900 - exclusively, apart from a brief period of a year or so before they started. (From memory, until I can open my files again.)

[madweasel]

Hi Sally

Yes, the support from the client came through and so we are taking the project to publication.

Ah yes - Watson for Walton. Thank you for spotting that. Just a question - and sorry if I have asked this before. He was called 'manager'. Do we know what that status was?

As for identifying any Walton products, then this layer [205] would be key. If there is anything then it might be among the fragments I am presenting today and tomorrow.

[Sally]

Hi John, Until I get home, in a few days yet, I won't be able to reply about 'manager'. Will do then, though. Sally

[madweasel]

Thank you Sally.

[madweasel]

More colourless fragments from [205].

[madweasel]

Interior and exterior of <33> and two others from [205].

[madweasel]

Uranium from [205]

[neilh]

31 - this is from one of three possible registrations in 1867 which are all very similar, so you have a firm date there.

[madweasel]

Do you mean 209161, 214357 and 214358?

I suspect 33 could be 209161. Would you agree?

If this is so then the brick floor [204] must post-date 1867.

J