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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)  
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BWV66.jpg  Cullet and company sign
(taken 13.7.2012)  


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BWV67.jpg  Showroom.
(taken 13.7.2012)  

MN photo:-  
The factory floor is open to visit

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BWV68.jpg  Factory floor.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV69.jpg  Glass furnace.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV70.jpg  Glass blower; early stages of making a vessel.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV71.jpg  Glass blower; finishing off a vessel.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV72.jpg  Glass blower's bench; an jacks, callipers and other tools
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV73.jpg  Keeping the vessel soft in a glory hole, a small furnace.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV74.jpg  Vessel in the glory hole.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV75.jpg  An assistant nipping the vessel with tweezers, so break it off the pontil iron.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV76.jpg  Lifting the hot vessel.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV77.jpg  Puttin the vessel inan annealing oven to cool slowly.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV78.jpg  Tools.
(taken 13.7.2012)  

MN photo:-  
Glass is engraved here by Neil Yates.

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BWV79.jpg  Neil Yates, glass engraver
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV80.jpg  Glass engraved with Aira Force.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV81.jpg  Glass engraved with Napes Needle.
(taken 13.7.2012)  
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BWV82.jpg  Working sketches.
(taken 13.7.2012)  

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