Stourbridge Glass Works

HER Number

3482

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Stourbridge Glass Works

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

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

The New Stourbridge Glassworks at Pipewellgate was the works of Sowerby's, who were among the first to introduce pressed coloured glass to England. The peacock was their trademark. Coloured pressed glass was still being manufactured by Sowerby's in Gateshead in 1969. The firm has since been swallowed up by the Suntex Group, although the works site still exisited [in 1983].

Easting

424800

Northing

563210

Grid Reference

NZ424800563210

Sources

<< HER 3482 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2; T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138; F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p. 77; Campbell, 1968, A Century of Chemisty in Tyneside, 1868-1968, p 15; 1983, A glass full of memories, Evening Chronicle, 26 Feb 1983; S. Murray, 1983, The Peacock and the lions