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From: Brian Pears <>
Subject: Re: [NMB] Jarrow Alkali Works
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:10:49 +0000
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Hi <Names are useful for communication purposes>

>Can anyone please tell me anythiing about the Jarrow Alkali Works ?
>All I know is that it was a glass works

Are you sure? I thought they just made soda (sodium carbonate)
using the Leblanc process (starting with salt from the sea),
bleaching powder and soap (using cheap imported vegetable oils).
They may have supplied soda to the glass industry, but I don't
think they made glass.

You don't give dates, but the Jarrow company and other large
chemical firms on the Tyne had moved much of their work to
Teesside by the end of the 19th century to make use of deposited
salt. A sensible move judging by the success of the Tees
chemical industry and the disappearance of that on the Tyne.

>Did the workers actually live within the works

Hardly!

>and would there be any employees
>records still surviving ? If so, where would I find them ?

If there are surviving records these would most likely be with
one or other of the CROs - try Tyne and Wear Archives, Durham
County Record Office and Cleveland County Archives.

Cheers, Brian
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