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Northumberland / Re: New Hartley Pit Disaster 1862
« on: Tuesday 19 June 12 13:40 BST (UK) »
RE. memorial glasses.
My wife Christine is the gggg niece of James Amour she has visited the memorial at Earsdon several times and attended the 150 memorial service. At a talk on memorial glasses some time ago at South Shields Central Library, pictures of the Hartley disaster glasses were shown. It is unlikely that memorial items were actually commissioned. However glass engravers would buy glassware and do their own thing to sell on. Sometimes they would travel about and offer to engrave glasses already owned in the household. In that way memorial glasses, for whatever you can think of will range from wine glasses to beer tankards to fruit bowls. Anything to make a quick buck out of anything to remember.
My wife Christine is the gggg niece of James Amour she has visited the memorial at Earsdon several times and attended the 150 memorial service. At a talk on memorial glasses some time ago at South Shields Central Library, pictures of the Hartley disaster glasses were shown. It is unlikely that memorial items were actually commissioned. However glass engravers would buy glassware and do their own thing to sell on. Sometimes they would travel about and offer to engrave glasses already owned in the household. In that way memorial glasses, for whatever you can think of will range from wine glasses to beer tankards to fruit bowls. Anything to make a quick buck out of anything to remember.