Buildings before Demolition
Image: Photo taken from “the plain” just before 1945-1946 demolition and looking towards the road shown on number 25 (photo 32). The buildings on the right were demolished but on the left continued making “Hysil” glass in the glasshouse known as number 11 house. These were not demolished in 1945-1946.
Image from: Chance Brothers Glassworks, Smethwick Slides. Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, Dudley (Slide and Transcript no 33 by Arthur Reeves).
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The Smethwick Glass Works of Chance Brothers, West Midlands
Optical Department: Two Pot Furnace
Optical Department: Pot being set into a Furnace
Optical Department: Open Pots after Cooling
Works Fire Engine
Glory Hole (1852-54) for Crown Window Glass Production
Rectangular Chimney built for Glory Hole
Rectangular Chimney for Glory Hole and Circular Chimney
Globe Department: the Glass Blower
Globe Department: Welding a Cathode Ray Tube
Globe Department: Testing Radar or Cathode Ray Tubes
Stonemason’s Shop: Dressing a Rolled-plate Machine Sill
Stonemason’s Shop: Mason’s Shaping Refractories by Hand
Demolition of House Cone No 10
Demolition of House Cone No 10
Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12
Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12
The Last Cone No 12 built at Chance Brothers, Smethwick
Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12
Demolition of No 12 Glasshouse
Demolition of No 12 Glasshouse
Demolition of No 10 Glasshouse
Demolition of No 10 Glasshouse
Buildings Containing Furnaces
Back of No 6 Glasshouse
Warehouses and Globe Department
Buildings before Demolition
View of No 6 Glasshouse
View of Coal-feeding Hopper
Various Buildings at Chances Glassworks
Truncated Cone belonging to 1834 Pot Furnace
