Some Incidental Notes of a Flint-glass Works Manager from 1875-1916

JSGT 1918 V02 T241-T246  (6 pages)

Dr W. E. S. Turner has encouraged me to put together the following notes and recollections. The normal output of the works in 1875 was table-glass, tube and coloured glasses for church windows. The works manager's training consisted in courses of chemistry at Oxford, glass analysis, and visits to glass works, potteries, and clay works. The books available, which proved to be helpful, were Professor F. S. Barff’s Cantor Lectures on silicates and glass (1872) and G. Bontemps's Guide du Verrier (1868).

Harry J. Powell