Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,344 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Century Glass Works

From Graces Guide

of Angel Factory Colony, Edmonton, London, N18. Telephone: Tottenham 3751. Showrooms: 148 Holborn EC1. Telephone: Holborn 7532.

1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Glassware: Handblown, Pressedware, Machine blown, Bowls, Vases, Jugs, Cruets, Sugars, Creams, Flint and Colours. Glass Buttons crystal coloured and painted. Export only. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1141) [1]

1948 Rudolf Winter and Francis Frederick Richards of Fountain Glass Works in west Yorkshire took over Century Glass Works of Angel Factory Colony, Edmonton, London, N18. Previous directors of the firm, possibly established in 1941, were H. A. Hughes and E. A. Sharp.

Rudolf Winter was managing director of Century Glass Works throughout the 1950s and still company director at his death in 1963. His daughter Lotte Stark (1916-2002) was company secretary.

1965 Wound up.

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