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From: Pamela Gray <>
Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Abbreviation --- G H - glassmaker ?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 14:58:41 -0300
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Why would the glassmakers of Newcastle learn glassmaking from
immigrants from Lorraine when they could find out from Sunderland
only a few miles to the south, I wonder?

For more information on the history of glassmaking in the UK in
general and the North East in particular, see the UK's National Glass
Centre's website at
http://www.3k1.co.uk/ngc/general/indexglassmaking.htm


Pamela
(a former resident of Sunny Sunderland)

At 6:00pm +0100 18/05/2003, Robert Surtees wrote:
><snip>
>
>From what I can find on the Web, Newcastle was a major centre for
>glassmaking, at least in the 18th century if not far longer , the trade
>having been brought to the area in the 16th century by immigrants from
>Lorraine. I haven't been able to find a great deal about the trade and would
>be grateful for more information, not least on the location of these
>glasshouses in NAS. However I have seen bottleworks in Byker on an 1864 map.
><snip


--
Pamela Gray

in Halifax, Nova Scotia looking mainly for -
ROBSON in and around Hexham, Northumberland
FORSTER in the Northumberland-Durham coalfield
GRAY in Meath, Ireland, and Bp Auckland, Co Durham

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