Topic: Amalgamated Glass Bottle Works Ltd - History?

[TonyG1]

Apologies if this isn't the correct place to post this.  As part of an ancestry research project I am trying to get information on the Amalgamated Glass Bottle Works Ltd. (Company No: 164684).  It was incorporated in 1919 and dissolved in about 1932.  The Works was situated in Treby Street, off Maplin Street in the Mile End district of London's East End.  If anyone has more information on the company (especially pictures) please let me know.

[neilh]

Have you tried going to the National Archives to look at the company docs?

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7111987
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4972097

You are likely to get a list of the companies they were trading with when they went under, if there was a period in administration. Plus you should get a list of directors and possibly shareholders. Then I'd go on to the family history sites with the names and make a few contacts. Your best chance of a hidden stash of photos etc is a descendant of those who ran the works.

[TonyG1]

Thanks - that was going to be my next step.  I'll have them run a page check first to see if they have the sort of information I'm looking for.  They do that as standard and then quote based on the volume of material.

[Ekimp]

Hi, I’ve just had a search out of interest.

I see there was a company E. Youldon, Ltd. Manufacturers of Glass Bottles, Carter Street then Treby Street. Looks like the street name was changed in the 1910s from Carter to Treby.

E. Youldon stablished 1840, then wound up in 1923, mentioned in The Chemist and Druggist: https://anyflip.com/qbni/hxyd/basic/301-322

Wind-up notice in London Gazette  https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32790/page/641/data.pdf

Seems a coincidence that Amalgamated Glass Bottle Works Ltd started at about the time E. Youldon wound up, so maybe they took over the premises and equipment etc?

Looking at the maps from 1900 https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=31500&zoom=16&annum=1900 it looks like there was only one building off Carter/Treby Street that was not a house or school, so possibly the glass works?

[TonyG1]

That's great information - much appreciated.  I'm hoping that the National Archive files I've ordered will include that sort of information.  I know the area well from the Underground Map - the ancestor I'm researching and his brothers all lived around the area - Carter Street, Eric Street, Treby Street itself and English Street.  Treby street is still there, but Carter Street is gone.
The E Youldon information is very interesting.  My ancestor Frederick William Pike lived at 9 Carter Street, and in the 1911 Census and on his 1912 marriage certificate his profession is glass blower, but no company was mentioned.  In 1914 he joined the Royal Artillery, and served until 1919,  In the 1921 Census he's working at Amalgamated.  So I think it's probable his pre-war employer was Youldon, and that was taken over by Amalgamated.  Amalgamated wound up in about 1932, and Frederick ended up as a cable-layer for the Stepney Electricity Company.

Many thanks for your reply.

Tony