Wear Glass Works (Hartley Glass Works)

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.