Globe Department: the Glass Blower
1824 - 1950 (c.)
Image: Photo taken about 1940. It shows the right foot of the glass blower ready to press the pedal to open the cast iron mould, thereby releasing the glass globe after manufacture. Of the other two pedals, one is for raising the mould out of the cooling water where it had fallen after opening; and the other pedal is for shutting the mould after the glass “gathering” was in position for blowing. This machine can only be used for making globes up to a certain size.
Image from: Chance Brothers Glassworks, Smethwick Slides. Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, Dudley (Slide and Transcript no 11 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
