Crown Glass Works
Crown Glass Works
HER Number
2772
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Crown Glass Works
Place
Southwick
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Glassmaking Site
Site Type: Specific
Glass Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
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.
Easting
437940
Northing
557970
Grid Reference
NZ437940557970
Sources
<< 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
N.T. Sinclair in Milburn & Miller, (eds) 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People, Industry to 1914, p.32