Image by Stevekin
Small glasscutter’s workshops such as this based on one in Bridge Street, Wordsley were found in back yard locations throughout Wordsley and Stourbridge.
The stationary engine at the workshop entrance powers the line shafting driving the cutting frames.
The wooden deep cutting lathes were used to cut traditional designs into the crystal glass for which the area is so famous.
Examples of the glasscutter’s work can be bought directly from him.
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Black Country Living Museum Trust.
Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 4SQ.
A Private Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England Company No. 1226321 and Registered as a Charity No. 504481
The Museum is run by The Black Country Living Museum Trust as a ‘not for profit’ organisation which earns most of its running costs from admission income and sales to visitors.
The Black Country Living Museum deals with the history of the Black Country, the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators and trained educational guides.
