As for the history of the glass works, recent research suggests that this is the sequence for this short-lived site.
1853 - French establishes a glass works in Trimdon Street, the Sunderland Flint Glass Works..
1857 - Walton recorded as 'manager' of the Sunderland Flint Glass Works.
1858-9 - Angus and Greener partnership formed, trading as the Wear Flint Glass Works.
1859 - first A&G patent (117501)
1859-69 - numerous records of employment disputes, theft, fire, violence among workers.
1869 - Death of Angus. Greener trades alone.
1871 - Greener leaves Trimdon Street and sets up the Wear Flint Glass Works in Millfield. This is the famous works that was to become Jobling and co in 1921.
1873 - Samuel Neville, former partner of Sowerby, takes over the Trimdon Street works.
1874 - Neville stops trading.
1877 - A court order for the executors of Angus's will orders them to sell 'the Sunderland property'.
1897 - OS maps show terrace housing on the site. These were built following the demolition of the glass works, possibly as workers' housing for employees of local factories.
The following glass is from a different part of the site. Layer [143] was a dump of glass and building debris found int he entrance to what the 1859 OS plan labels as the 'office'.