Working class clothing?

[littlealison]

Alan, it's so satisfying when I find something I have been wondering about!

Found in an online encyclopaedia:
"bottle house - An old English term for a manufacturer of glass containers (bottles and jars) as distinct from tableware"
(Means, surely, the factory not the owner!)

Bottlehouse is a familiar term to me, but not sure just where I have seen it. There was a glass cone at Greenock and I found a photo of it. Don't know where now! It was quite an early one and showed just how messy and dirty the surroundings could be.

....You know, I thought the glass cone was unique to Britain, and it isn't. I have recently found some in Germany.

[littlealison]

I just realised I wrote Ringsend when posting about the bottlehouse slippers....I was trying to stick to Glasgow! However, there were plenty of mariners around there too. (Captain Willy Barr was a relation.) - Alison

[johnniegarve]

There's still an old glass cone in Alloa.

[littlealison]

Yes, I've seen a photo of it. My gg-grandfather probably worked in that one!
I never heard of a glass cone until I started on this family history stuff - you never see them in historical films, do you?
I visited the one in Dudley (the 'Red House')last year with my sister - they are quite scary inside!

[Currie]

From The Scotsman, 22 February, 1832.

EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, AND ALLOA GLASS COMPANY:
THE COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT, and the MANAGER of the COMPANY, beg to intimate to their numerous Friends & the Public that they have restricted their business to the MANUFACTURE of BOTTLES chiefly for the British and Irish Markets. In this department of the Glass Trade the present Company has established to itself a character for excellence which it will be its unremitted effort to maintain; and it trusts to receive the support of those friends to whom it is already under great obligations.
In consequence of the restriction of the business above alluded to, the Company is able to dispose, by SALE or LEASE of the great part of its Extensive and Eligible PREMISES. In particular there is a FLINT GLASS CONE, with a complete suit of relative Buildings, and Steam-Engine, well worth the consideration of any person wishing to enter into that line. There are also several other Cones which can he spared, and which may be used either in the Glass Trade, or, by a little alteration, may be rendered suitable for a variety or other purposes. The premises are situated on the river Forth, and are not liable in shore dues, while their vicinity to excellent coal, to which there is a railway, point them out as peculiarly worthy of the consideration of capitalists.
17th Feb. 1832.
P.S.—Orders received for Bottles of every description (including Apothecaries') at the Works, Alloa, by Mr SANDEMAN.
At LEITH, Mr George Thomsom; GLASGOW, Mr Henchlewood; PERTH, Mr Turnbull; ABERDEEN, Messrs M’Farlane and Co.; INVERNESS, Mr Kyle; LONDON, Mr George Bell, Fenchurch street; LIVERPOOL, Mr Chas. Humbertson, Prince’s Dock.

Alan

[littlealison]

Alan - very interesting as this is when I think my gg-grandfather went to Alloa.

A bit of earlier history on
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk ... -works-gla .

I think they overextended themselves, and then had to downsize in 1832. The Dumbarton works closed in this year as both the heirs died, and there would I suppose have been openings for bottle workers....and my gg-father had a child in Alloa in 1838. In 1841 he's back in Dumbarton.

Thanks Alan.
P.S. I can't access the Scotsman from the British Library - I would welcome any more info from there!

[littlealison]

Some pictures of glassworks, just out of interest!

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/searc ... d=SC604625 – Alloa

http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/tourism-an ... ryindex=17 - Greenock