An example of Bristol glass.
Nazeing Glass Works, between Broxbourne and Nazeing on the Hertfordshire Essex border has closed following plans to redevelop the land.
The factory has been producing glass from the site since 1928 when it was started by Malcolm Pollock-Hill.
It has been in family ownership since, and Malcom’s son Stephen Pollock-Hill has run it with his wife Samantha. Their children Talitha and Robert Pollock-Hill were also involved with the business.
An example of one of the Nazeing glass bowls.
The museum and factory stock will be sold from the factory on Nazeing Road on September 23 (today) and on September 30. For those who wish to visit in the week before September 30 please contact 01992 464485 to book an appointment. The factory will close its doors at the end of the day on September 30.
Examples of Sherwood glass from the Nazeing museum.
Among the items to be offered for sale are Victorian and later examples of glass from difference factories (previously on display at its museum) alongside many examples of Nazeing wares from the past 95 years.
An example of a light from Nazeing Glass Works.
The glass pressing and glass blowing factory is well known for its wares, supplying industrial glass for pavements, bulkheads, wall blocks, railway signal lenses, marine and ship lighting, aircraft and airport runway lenses, street and display lighting and corporate giftware as well as homewares from glasses to bowls.
Talitha said: “We have an amazing team at the factory but our numbers have dwindled from our heyday of 1978 when we had 174 employers and reduced to 11.
“We owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for their incredible work ethic and sunshine attitude. Many employees started at the factory straight out of school at 17 to learn and master a craft. Our glass certainly shows that they did just that, becoming master craftsmen in their own right.”
Talitha said a number of famous glass blowers, throwers and pressers have links to Nazeing including Geoffrey Baxter of Whitefriars, Ronnie Stennett-Wilson of Wedgwood and Frank Thrower of Dartington.
