Search Results for: Chance Brothers
The Spon Lane School, 1845
Image: The Spon Lane Schools, Smethwick built by Chance Brothers, Glassmakers (1845) from an original design in watercolour.… read more »
Truncated Cone belonging to 1834 Pot Furnace
Image: Photo taken before demolition of number 4 Glasshouse on the north side of the works. The… read more »
Types of Glass
Image: Glass Pots in which the ingredients used in glassmaking were fired. These were made from Stourbridge… read more »
Various Buildings at Chances Glassworks
Image: The photo was probably taken in 1945 just before demolition commenced, and is the view from… read more »
View of Coal-feeding Hopper
Image: Photo taken during 1945/1946 demolition and from the other side of the coal feeding hopper shown… read more »
View of No 6 Glasshouse
Image: Photo taken during the 1945-1946 demolition of part of the south side of the works. This… read more »
View of the Alkali Works, 1862
Image: View of Chance Brothers Alkali Works, Oldbury (1862). James Frederick Chance, A History of the Firm of Chance… read more »
View of the Chance Brothers Glassworks, 1857
Image: View of Chance Brothers Glassworks, Smethwick (1857) from a print. James Frederick Chance, A History of the… read more »
Warehouses and Globe Department
Image: Photo taken during the 1945-1946 demolition of part of the south side of the works. In… read more »
William Chance: Public Figure
Image: William Chance (died 1856), from an oil painting by Thomas Philips RA, John Frederick Chance, A… read more »
Works Fire Engine
Image: Photos taken about 1950. The works fire brigade was formed in 1848 and this example of a… read more »
