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 167,711 pages of information and 247,104 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.

Tutbury Glass Co

From Graces Guide

Tutbury Glass Company, Tutbury, Staffs.

1810 Glass was first made in Tutbury[1].

1851 Tutbury Glass Company were plain and cut glass manufacturers[2].

1863 John Thomas Haden Richardson left Hodgetts, Richardson and Pargeter to join the Tutbury Glass Co as a managing partner.

1863 Parliamentary Enquiry into the use of children in industry visited Tutbury Glass Works[3].

1906 Thomas Webb and Corbett acquired Tutbury Glass Works[4]; G H Corbett became manager[5].

1911 Walter E. Guest replaced G. H. Corbett as manager of Tutbury Glassworks.

Corbett and Co was established in Tutbury - not sure of the connection.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Victoria history of the county of Stafford, Volume 2
  2. History, Gazetteer & Directory of Staffordshire, 1851
  3. Reports from committees, by the House of Commons
  4. The Victoria history of the county of Stafford, Volume 2
  5. Webb and Corbett[1]