Monument record 6304/2 - Glassworks at Finedon Ironworks

{2} The furnaces associated with iron smelting works were used for a time for glass blowing and for manufacturing paving slabs.

{4} Great credit is due to Mr Bashley Britton for having devised a method of utilizing in the manufacture of glass the iron slag which accumulates as refuse at the rate of nearly 8,000 tons per annum. Both the heat and the material of the slag are utilized, and it is upon the possibility of using the former that the economy of the process depends. The glass manufactory at Finedon in Northamptonshire is in close contiguity to the blast furnaces of the iron works; and as the molten slag is run out from the iron furnaces it is directly conveyed to the furnace in which it is converted into glass.

<1> Tonks E., 1990, The Ironstone Quarries of The Midlands (History, Operation and Railways): The Wellingborough Area, (unchecked) (Book). SNN45742.

<2> Bailey J.L.H., 1975, Finedon Otherwise Thingdon: A History of Finedon, (unchecked) (Book). SNN105040.

<3> BALLINGER J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Finedon (Industrial), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100503.

<4> Powell H. J., 1883, The Principles of Glass-Making, (unchecked) (Book). SNN105041.

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