Former site of Liddle-Henzell 's Ouseburn Glassworks
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Former site of Liddle-Henzell 's Ouseburn Glassworks
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 19 Feb 2012
The Ouseburn Valley held the England-wide monopoly on glassworks in the C17th. The bridge across the lower Ouse Burn is still known as The Glasshouse Bridge. The artwork, 'Ten green bottles' in painted steel by Lewis Robinson (2002) sit on a ledge half way up the wall providing a memorial to the industry, and there are other 'bottles' incorporated in the walkway railings. Someone had recently added a real lager bottle to make eleven. Within the warehouse building beyond the wall is a chimney base standing adjacent to a probable tank furnace base (a concreted-over void). The chimney was demolished in 2002. Five flue-arches leading towards the former furnace can be seen above the Ouseburn, now adjacent to the walkway along the north bank. This was the site of a bottle-making factory. Tyne and Wear HER (1913, 1914, 1915): Ouseburn, Glass Houses http://www.twsitelines.info
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