Men working in the old Stourbridge Crystal Glass Works (UK) circa 1930s/ early 1940's - This old photograph of lead crystal glass workers shows glass being marvered (right), shaped in a 'chair' (left) and 'gathered' (centre). For around for 375 years glass was formerly made in large quantities in an area stretching from Stourbridge in the south to Dudley in the north, having been started by 17th century French immigrants from Lorraine

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