Forty years beside the glass industry

JSGT 1957 V41 T331-T336

My knowledge of men who make glass has, in many instances, been first-hand, but I must confess that my knowledge of glass itself in relation to its fabrication and manipulation has been entirely second-hand. To me 'forehearth' might indicate the location of the hearth-rug, a 'taker-in' be a form of rascal peculiar to the glass industry, and a 'lehr' merely an awkward word whose anomalous spelling provided a challenge to the erudition of Professor Turner! For forty years I have been beside you, forty years in which my interest in the industry and its personalities has steadily grown and has been so warmly reciprocated that, although I may never claim to be 'inside', I certainly no longer feel 'outside' the glass industry.

C. E. Ramsden