Dartmouth Street 1881

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Bit more about Glass and Dartmouth Street.

In October 1838 Joseph Wallis and Joseph Richardson announced that they were now in Black glass Bottles at Victoria Bottle Works.

May 1839 there was a Prospectus to form a Joint Stock Company to carry on as the Victoria Bottle Works Co. "The Works consists of 3 furnaces, 8 annealing Arches, sundry valuable tools, moulds, fixtures and fittings"...."Birmingham, by its central situation and great access to water and other carriage, and from its present and rising importance, affords numerous advantages..."

Strangely there is an advert in July 1839...To be Let or Sold, premises called Victoria Bottle Works having a basin from the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham Canal.

In March 1848 Joseph and James Stevens, formerly of Coalbourne Hill Glass Works near Stourbridge, took over the works known as Victoria Bottle Works and owned by Messrs Wallis and Richardson. They were to manufacture flint and coloured glass. It seems to be referred to as the Victoria Glass Works, and James Stevens and Son existed until at least 1890.

Thanks for the history of the Victoria Glass Works. I recently discovered that James Stevens senior’s great grandson was my grandfather. That makes James my 3rd great grandfather. My research into the Stevens family brought me to the thread on Union Glass where I left a post asking about the history of Victoria Glass Works. A bit more digging got me here and answers to most of my questions. Thanks again.