Tyne and Wear HER(1913): Ouseburn, Low Glass Houses - Details
1913
Newcastle
Ouseburn, Low Glass Houses
Ouseburn
NZ26SE
Industrial
Glassmaking Site
Glass Works
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
Early 18th century maps show three works immediately downstream from the Ouseburn (Low, Middle and High Glass Houses). The Low Glass House is also referred to as St. Peters Glass House. The Hugnenot families of Henzell and Tyzack were the leading glassmakers on the east side of Newcastle. They first worked a glasshouse at Howdon Panns, but after 1759 were in Newcastle. In 1736 there were at least seven glasshouses on the east bank of the Ouse, of which all save one (the St. Lawrence Bottle House) were worked by the Henzell-Tyzack families, specialising in sheet glass and bottles. The Henzells were the greatest glassmaking family on Tyneside, though after 1786 the family never had the same dominating position in Newcastle.
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<< HER 1913 >> English Heritage, 1997, Selection of Sites for Statutory Protection - The Glass Industry
Hutton, 1772
Cole and Roper, 1808
Oliver, 1830
C. Bray, Tyne and Wear County Council Museums Service
1972, A Brief History of Glass Making on Tyneside
F. Buckley, Glasshouses on the Tyne in the Eighteenth Century, Journal of the Society of Glass Technology, p27-29
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 46