West-Country Glasshouses

JSGT 1929 V13 T124-T129

In the Transactions of the Society for 1925 an account was given of the rise and progress of the early glasshouses of Bristol. This triumphant progress of the Bristol glass-makers must be borne in mind in order to understand the reason for the melancholy fate of other glass concerns in the neighbourhood of Bristol. The hand of Bristol lay heavy on its minor competitors in the West. And in some cases small factories may have been bought and closed down by Bristol glass-makers; this, we know, was a procedure not unknown to the glass-makers of Stourbridge.

Francis Buckley