Irish glass : an account of glass-making in Ireland from the XVIth century to the present day by Westropp M. S. Dudley (Michael Seymour Dudley) 1868-1954

Author:Westropp, M. S. Dudley (Michael Seymour Dudley), 1868-1954
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Glass manufacture -- Ireland, Glassware -- Ireland
Publisher: London : H. Jenkins

PLATE XXIV Three pickle jars. Cork, about 1820-30. Author's Collection.

Three water jugs. Cut in large, shallow diamonds and hollow flutes. Nos i and 3 of uncommon shape. Probably Dublin or Cork, early iQt century. No. 2 probably Cork, about 1820-30. In the possession of Mr F. C. Cowper.

PLATE XXIV

are erected with all suitable offices, or they will let it in divisions to suit purchasers." It does not appear that anyone purchased the concern in order to carry on the glass business, for in September, 1823, the whole of the ground with extensive buildings erected thereon, adjoining the east end of the Long Bridge, formerly occupied as a manufactory of glass, was advertised to be let. It was also stated that the buildings consisted of a conical chimney one hundred and eighty feet in circumference and one hundred and fifty feet high, being the largest in Ireland, and storehouses, vaults, offices, etc.

The chimney here referred to must be that of the first glass works erected by Smylie and Co., the second chimney having evidently been pulled down before this date.

There were originally three chimneys, two belonging to Smylie's glass works and one to Edwards'. One, as we see, was pulled down before 1823, a second probably about the middle of the nineteenth century, and the third still remains standing. It is uncertain, however, whether this one belonged to Smy lie's glass works or to Edwards'.

As previously mentioned Smy lie's glass-house was taken over by Benjamin Edwards, jun., in 1824. Smylie and Co. appear to have had a warehouse in Dublin after the closing of the glass-house, for in Dublin directories from 1800 to 1820 the name of " John Smylie and Co., Belfast glass merchants," is to be found.

As stated on page 103 John Edwards, when he retired from the firm of Benjamin Edwards and Sons in 1803, established a new flint glass-house at 79 Peter's Hill, Belfast. Previous to this, in 1789, he had set up a tobacco pipe manufactory, adjoining the glass-house at the end of the Long Bridge.

He did not retain the glass works long, as in 1804 he became bankrupt, and the concern was purchased by Joseph Wright, who stated that he handed it over to a company without " a farthing profit." No profiteering in those days ! John Edwards ceased to have any connection with this glass-house, but his name appears in a Belfast directory of 1820, as proprietor of a glass works at Ballymacarrett, probably with his brother Benjamin. The glasshouse on Peter's Hill was known as the Belfast Glass Works, and was carried on under the firm of Geddes, McDowell and Co. In an advertisement, dated December 2Oth, 1806, in the Belfast News Letter, they return thanks to the public for encouragement since their commencement, and inform

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