Nailsea Glassworks was a glass manufacturing company that operated a bottle and window glass factory in Nailsea, Somerset, England, from 1788 until 1873. Little of the original site survives, though the remaining structures have been excavated, preserved, and designated a scheduled monument.
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1. Nailsea Glassworks (Wikipedia)
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The factory making bottle glass and some window glass opened in 1788 and closed in 1873
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The glassworks was established by John Robert Lucas, in 1788 because of the plentiful supply of coal for the furnaces, from Elms colliery and other local mines of the Nailsea Basin and outlier of the Bristol Coalfield.
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Nailsea Glassworks was a glass manufacturing factory in Nailsea in the English county of Somerset.
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Nailsea Glassworks was a glass manufacturing factory in Nailsea in the English county of Somerset.
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former glass factory in Nailsea, Somerset, England, UK
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