Tyne and Wear HER(2772): Southwick, Crown Glass Works - Details
2772
Sunderland
Southwick, Crown Glass Works
Southwick
NZ35NE
Industrial
Glassmaking Site
Glass Works
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
Wearmouth Crown Glass Works or Southwick Crown Glassworks was opened in 1805, and from c.1823 was run by Atwoods. Until c.1860 it produced Crown glass, thereafter, blown sheet. The Wear Crown Glass Company took over c.1869 and eventually the site was absorbed into Pickersgill's Shipyard.
3794
5797
NZ37945797
<< HER 2772 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8
N.T. Sinclair in Milburn & Miller, (eds) 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People, Industry to 1914, p.32