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coddswallop:
I am trying to find details on a company called waterstones as far as I know who were glassmakers who left Wood Bros to set up on their own. I am trying to find the location of the company and when it produced glass and if it is still in production any help would be appreciated   Alan

Anne:
Hi Alan, Is this the one you mean?  ...


--- Quote from: Miller's Glass fact file A-Z by Ivo Haanstra ---Waterstone Glassware Ltd., glassworks in Wath-upon-Dearne, (1945-present), bottles, tableware, pressed glass, giftware & paperweights, semi-crystal, full lead crystal, sodalime, borosilicate, opal.
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Frank:
1950 Pottery Gazette annual

Scent bottles & Cream jars.

Managing Directors G A Broadbent and W R Barker

London Agents: Intl. Bottle Co Ltd. (Also Agents for Tomlinson & Co, Manor Flint Glass Works, Barnsley)


1953 annual adds Established 1937 and expanded range

glassaddict:
http://www.eyebaths.com
This site lists eyebaths by both Wood Bros and Waterstones and may have some information to help you.
Good Luck
Hil

Anne:
Just rummaging around in Google produced this link from Rootsweb's Rotherham list archives which has some interesting info about Waterstones (and other glassworks in that area)...
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-ROTHERHAM/2003-10/1067283702

AsiaGlass website also gives this contact info page for the company..
http://www.asiaglass.com.sg/asgcomindex/showsite.asp?siteID=1331

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