Whitefriars Glass

Britain’s longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, was purchased by James Powell for his three sons in 1834. It subsequently led fashion and technology in the manufacture of domestic glass for a century and a half.

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest ru…

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