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headlandarchaeology.com - Verreville Pottery, Glasgow
“The glass works was founded in 1777 with pottery being produced from the early 1800s. Glass-making ceased in the 1840s and the pottery works finally shut down in 1917.”
Verreville: (from repository.nms.ac.uk : )
“….In 1838 Alexander Kidston became sole partner, and he closed the Lancefield Pottery and Glassworks, transferring all production to Verreville.” (ie pottery)
(Dates of closure found vary from 1833 to early 1840s,
In early 1844 several sites of this works were sold (Glasgow Herald advertisements in January and February 1844, giving details) including the glass cone on the west side of Lancefield Street. The bottle cone is still there on an 1857 map of Glasgow and is then part of Borron’s Glasgow Glass Works.)
“In the 1841 Census W G Borron described himself as "Lead Manufacturer", a title which reflected his move from the status of "administrator" to that of "proprietor". He also extended his business interests for soon afterwards he became a senior partner in Borron, Price & Kidston, Glass Manufacturers, with premises at Finnieston and Port Dundas in Glasgow.”
He first appears in Glasgow in 1844 as a glass manufacturer at these sites. He's at Port Dundas the year before.
(nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office )
He is there in the 1879-80 edition and disappears by the 1880-81 edition.
He’s trading as Borron, Price & Kidston until 1851 and Borron, Price & Co until 1862.
Archibald Glen Kidston was a member of the large Kidston family of iron merchants.
Hugh Price is still unknown, but apparently didn’t live in Glasgow.
William Geddes Borron (1810 – 1896). Glasgow Glass Works, 1844-1880.
Works, Lancefield Street and Port Dundas – by the distillery.
The works are recorded as making crown and sheet glass and bottles until 1851, after which they apparently just make bottles.
His son, Charles Bell Ford Borron (1841 – 1927) is in the Glasgow Directories separately from 1873-5 as ‘Borron, Charles, & Co, glass manufacturers, 41 Ann Street.
(This is still a mystery as I thought he was in Lancashire at this time.)
And my great-great-grandfather, John Little (1812-1922), who was WG Borron’s manager at the Port Dundas works and became a partner of both the Borrons at some point, the partnership ending in 1872, when he went to Lancashire as partner of Charles Borron. (Bottles again.)
From the Glasgow Herald November 28th 1872:
The Subscriber hereby intimates, that on 24th June last, he ceased to be connected with Messrs Charles B.F. Borron and John Little, as Partners in carrying on the business of Glass Bottle Manufacturers in Glasgow, and at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, under the firm of Borron & Co; that he continues to carry on the Glasgow business for his own behoof, under that firm, and that he has no interest in any Business carried on at Newton-le-Willows.
W.G.Borron……..witnessed.
He was born in Glasgow and is in the 1841 Census in Dumbarton as Bottlemaker and Publican. He very probably worked in Alloa when the Dumbarton works closed from 1832-8, he had a daughter there. He was probably in Glasgow from 1849 when he married again there.
John Little’s son, also John Little, b 1841 in Dumbarton, was probably involved in the Stevenson and Little business, but is not named as a partner, unlike Stevenson’s son.
He lived in Croft Street in 1868, and may well be the author of a patent taken out in that year for alterations to the furnace. He had left for Dublin by 1870.
Also:
Archibald Connell Stevenson and John Little, from about 1862 to 1870, when the partnership broke up.
The works, built new, was at Croft Street, Camlachie, in Glasgow. With a ‘chimney stalk’ not a cone.
This partnership may have been formed to try out the new Siemen’s Regenerative Furnace, the first works on Scotland to do so, and only a year after it was first patented.
Saturday, November 29, 1862; Annotated 1862 article about Siemen’s Regenerative Furnace can be read here.
It is possible that this venture was funded by WG Borron, as John Little appears back at his Port Dundas works afterwards – but this is a guess.
(Slight alterations still being added)
See also Verreville Glassworks 1776-1842
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