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Demolition of No 12 Glasshouse

Image: Photo taken during the demolition in 1945-1946 of number 12 glasshouse. Note the inside of the cone with supporting pillars and the arches carrying the walls and cone. Under this cone was constructed the original coal fired furnace. The last furnace, built under the cone was in about 1928. It was a regenerative raw producer gas fired furnace and made Vita sheet glass.

Image from: Chance Brothers Glassworks, Smethwick Slides. Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, Dudley (Slide and Transcript no 26 by Arthur Reeves).


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2034-0The Smethwick Glass Works of Chance Brothers, West Midlands 4005-0Optical Department: Two Pot Furnace 4006-0Optical Department: Pot being set into a Furnace 4007-0Optical Department: Open Pots after Cooling 4008-0Works Fire Engine 4009-0Glory Hole (1852-54) for Crown Window Glass Production 4021-0Rectangular Chimney built for Glory Hole 4010-0Rectangular Chimney for Glory Hole and Circular Chimney 4011-0Globe Department: the Glass Blower 4012-0Globe Department: Welding a Cathode Ray Tube 4013-0Globe Department: Testing Radar or Cathode Ray Tubes 4014-0Stonemason’s Shop: Dressing a Rolled-plate Machine Sill 4015-0Stonemason’s Shop: Mason’s Shaping Refractories by Hand 4016-0Demolition of House Cone No 10 4017-0Demolition of House Cone No 10 4018-0Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12 4019-0Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12 4020-0The Last Cone No 12 built at Chance Brothers, Smethwick 4018-0Demolition of Glasshouses No 3, 8 and 12 4023-0Demolition of No 12 Glasshouse 4024-0Demolition of No 12 Glasshouse 4025-0Demolition of No 10 Glasshouse 4026-0Demolition of No 10 Glasshouse 4027-0Buildings Containing Furnaces 4028-0Back of No 6 Glasshouse 4029-0Warehouses and Globe Department 4030-0Buildings before Demolition 4037-0View of No 6 Glasshouse 4031-0View of Coal-feeding Hopper 4032-0Various Buildings at Chances Glassworks 4033-0Truncated Cone belonging to 1834 Pot Furnace