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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) => Topic started by: poolqwizrd on Sunday 07 December 08 12:51 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Im looking for any information for the Kilner Glass Factory which was around in Thornhill Lees I believe, It was on the WDYTYA which Jeremy Clarkson was on.
Any info of where I can find out about this would be much appreciated
Thanks
Paul
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See this other thread which has a similar request.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,268509.0.html
Davis
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thanks but its a bit out of date regarding the links it suggests as they dont work
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Hi,
I remember seeing the programme and it refers to Kilner's glass at Denaby/Conisbrough, South Yorkshire. :)
Jeremy Clarkson stood on the bridge near "The Earth Centre" which for a short time was, to use the term loosely, a tourist attraction in the Doncaster area!
I can't help with Thornhill Lees though. :)
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Hi
I have just been searching www.historicaldirectories.org in the West Yorkshire area and I spotted Kilner brothers glass works, sorry don't remember which directory, you will have to look, you can search by date and area. Hope this helps.
Deno
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HI
Have you seen this site
http://www.entour.org.uk/kilner-glass-works.html
Wendy
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Here's an interesting link :)
http://www.lindleyancestry.co.uk/Mr%20Caleb%20Kilner.htm
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Hi Paul
I have two drawings of the glass works at Thornhill Lees. They are a bit faint, but I'll send you copies if you haven't got them.
A lot of my family (Denton and Grason)were glass bottle makers at the factory.
regards
Francine
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Hi Francine
I also have 2 rellies that I know of who worked at Kilners Glass in Thornhill Lees. One was Nicholas Singlewood and the other was Matthew Singlewood, They were brothers, now a little bit of interest, Nicholas had a son Called Walter Garside Singlewood, He married an Annie GRASON. Either a big co-incedence or she was maybe related to someone who worked with the Singlewoods????
Let me know if theres a connection
Paul
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hi there poolwizrd you need to try and get in touch with Jeremy Clarkson from the motoring programme on the tv. he did a lot of his family tree and they where involved with the kilner company, i think it was a direct relative of his that owned the company and it was shown on tv in the progamme called Who do you think you are. plum
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if anyone wants to know the process of bottle makimg hand blowing or machine let me know i worked in a glass works
neil
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ive just went on youtube it has all the kilner glass clarkson wdytya on just go on youtube and type in kilner glass its all their in about 5 parts.
neil
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I have quite a number of bottles in my collection which were made at Kilner Brothers' manufactory in Thornhill Lees, nr Dewsbury, which are marked with the name. There was another glass bottle works almost next door, Adamson's. As far as I remember from my research the Kilners factory was set up in Dewsbury in the 1840's, by a John Kilner from Holmfirth, and three years later in the late 1840's he moved to the more famous site at Thornhill Lees (probably taking the premises of an older established flint glass works there). I MAY be slightly out on my info here as I am working this from memory. The Kilners glassworks is something I have always fancied tackling as a research and print project, if time allowed. It's also worth remembering that about 5 or 6 miles away in Wakefield there was also John Kilner's glassworks.
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I appreciate I'm a little late, but if anyone else is researching these factories thus might be helpful.
https://www.conisbroughheritage.com/kilner-s-glassworks
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Thank you, that's really useful and there's some great photos there :-)
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Anybody wanting to delve deeper into the Kilner Providence Glassworks at Thornhill Lees, particularly with regard to industrial relations, could do much worse than consult the local newspapers (Dewsbury Reporter, Batley Reporter, Huddersfield Chronicle et al) from the period 1874-1880. There were some right goings-on, including a big "scab workers" scandal that saw black-legs bussed in from Sunderland that resulted in pitched battles in the streets. It explains why the 1881 census for Thornhill Lees shows a significant number of inhabitants with origins in the north-east when, ten years previously, there was nary a Mackem to be had.