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| Ulverston: Cumbria Crystal | ||
| Cumbria Crystal | ||
| locality:- | Ulverston | |
| civil parish:- | Ulverston (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | glass works | |
| locality type:- | craft shop | |
| locality type:- | workplace | |
| coordinates:- | SD29567863 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2978 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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 BWV65.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV66.jpg Cullet and company sign (taken 13.7.2012) |
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 BWV67.jpg Showroom. (taken 13.7.2012) |
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| MN photo:- |
The factory floor is open to visit |
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 BWV68.jpg Factory floor. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV69.jpg Glass furnace. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV70.jpg Glass blower; early stages of making a vessel. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV71.jpg Glass blower; finishing off a vessel. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV72.jpg Glass blower's bench; an jacks, callipers and other tools (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV73.jpg Keeping the vessel soft in a glory hole, a small furnace. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV74.jpg Vessel in the glory hole. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV75.jpg An assistant nipping the vessel with tweezers, so break it off the pontil iron. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV76.jpg Lifting the hot vessel. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV77.jpg Puttin the vessel inan annealing oven to cool slowly. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV78.jpg Tools. (taken 13.7.2012) |
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| MN photo:- |
Glass is engraved here by Neil Yates. |
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 BWV79.jpg Neil Yates, glass engraver (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV80.jpg Glass engraved with Aira Force. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV81.jpg Glass engraved with Napes Needle. (taken 13.7.2012)  BWV82.jpg Working sketches. (taken 13.7.2012) |
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