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The World of Glass is a local museum and visitor centre in St Helens, Merseyside, England. The museum is dedicated to the local history of the town and borough primarily through the lens of the glass industry but also looking at other local industries.
Rockware Glass is a UK company manufacturing glass containers. The company has a works at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Knottingley West Yorkshire and Irvine, Scotland. Rockware became part of Ardagh Glass Group in 2006.
All hand-made crystal items are still produced at Dartington Crystal in Torrington meaning the factory is the only working hand-made tableware producing crystal factory left in the UK, [citation needed] Given the demand for this product, the company does however outsource some ranges of items from within the EU (especially machine-made) crystal ...
Pilkington glass in a Mercedes-Benz A trailer with Pilkington livery. The company was founded in 1826 as a partnership between members of the Pilkington and Greenall families, based in St Helens, Lancashire, England. [1] The venture used the trading name of St Helens Crown Glass Company. [2] The company grew to become the biggest employer in St ...
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The company in partnership with the Ministry of Munitions' Optical Munitions and Glass Department expanded significantly during World War I [10] [11]. In the early 20th century, many new ways of making glass evolved at Chance Brothers such as the innovative welding of a cathode-ray tube used for radar detection.
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company; Brockway Glass Company; Brookfield Glass Company; Cambridge Glass; Carr Lowrey Glass Company; Chance Brothers; Chandos Glass Cone; Cheshire Crown Glass Company; Clayton and Bell; Crystal City, Missouri; Dugan Glass Company; Dunbar Glass; Duncan & Miller Glass Company; Earley and Company; Edward Ford Plate ...
Ravenhead Glass was a glassworks near Ravenhead Colliery, Lancashire, North West England. It was founded in 1850 by Frances Dixon and John Merson after a move from their earlier (1842) factory at Thatto Heath near St Helens .