Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,996 pages of information and 246,689 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Successor to Vauxhall Glassworks
The 2nd Duke of Buckingham handed the glassworks to John Dawson, who had started work there as an apprentice and worked his way up to become the manager. Dawson went into partnership with glassmaker John Bowles to operate the business and the new company was owned and run by the two families until it closed in the late 1780s
1780s The business closed
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