Bishopwearmouth, Wear Glass Works (Hartley Glass Works)

HER Number:
2817

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth, Wear Glass Works (Hartley Glass Works)

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Glassmaking Site

Site Type: Specific:
Glass Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1833 James Hartley established his glass works at the junction of Hylton Road and Trimdon Street. The works were later owned by the Wear Glass Company, producing Roller plate window glass, stained glass and tableware. By the 1850s this works produced one third of all the plate glass in the country, using coal being brought along the Hetton Railway directly to the works. Hartley Glass Works closed in 1894 and in 1896 the site was cleared and houses built over it.

Easting:
3884

Northing:
5723

Grid Reference:
NZ38845723

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2817 >> 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 I. Ayris, 1996, Trimdon Street/Farringdon Row, Sunderland, An Appraisal of the Historical Development and Arch. English Heritage, 1997, Monuments Protection Program, Site Assessment