Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,675 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Harbridge Crystal Glass Co

From Graces Guide

of Stourbridge, crystal cut glassware

1939 Company formed. 'Harbridge Crystal Glass Company, Ltd.— Capital, £10,000 Objects: To acquire the business of glass manufacturers carried on by Colonel Bridgens and Samuel T. Harvey at Platts Works, Amblecote, Staffs, as Harbridge Crystal Glass Company. The directors are: Colonel Bridgens, Castlecroft, Stourton, Stourbridge, and Samuel T. Harvey, Glan-y- Mor, Stourton, Stourbridge. '[1]

1962 'Craftsman Richard Miles uses modern skills to engrave 18th and early 19th century patterns on reproductions of antique goblets at the Harbridge Crystal Glass Company at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, world famous centre for cut glass. Richard has been thirty years at the craft.'[2]

1967 'Harbridge Crystal Glass and Trading Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Webb and Corbett, Ltd., Stourbridge, is to move into a new 10,000 sq. ft. Government factory at Builth Wells in Mid-Wales.' About 35 people are employed om glass decorating.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 24 April 1939
  2. Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 22 August 1962
  3. Wolverhampton Express and Star - Thursday 26 January 1967