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FO - Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens (and its successor Rockware Glass Limited)
1 - Photographic albums of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens (and its successor Rockware Glass Limited)
2 - Individual photographs related to Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens (and its successor Rockware Glass Limited)
1 - Black and white photograph showing visit of Mayor, Councillor J. Hand, to Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
2 - Black and white photograph showing visit of Mayor, Councillor J. Hand, to Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
3 - Black and white photograph showing visit of Mayor, Councillor J. Hand, to Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
4 - Black and white photograph showing visit of Mayor, Councillor J. Hand, to Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
5 - Black and white photograph showing visit of Mayor, Councillor J. Hand, to Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
6 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
7 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
8 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
9 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
10 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
11 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
12 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
13 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
14 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
15 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
16 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
17 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 3 tank at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
18 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
19 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
20 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
21 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
22 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
23 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
24 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
25 - Black and white photograph showing ruins of building damaged by fire at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
26 - Black and white photograph showing hydraulic digger and sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
27 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
28 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
29 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
30 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
31 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Works, St.Helens
32 - Black and white photograph showing air ducts for feeder in No. 3 tank at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
33 - Black and white photograph showing air ducts for feeder in No. 3 tank at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
34 - Black and white photograph showing steel chimney outside No. 3 tank at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
35 - Black and white photograph showing interior of No. 3 tank at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
36 - Black and white photograph showing machine-cooling air intakes in No. 3 tank at Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
37 - Black and white photograph showing employee observing machinery in No. 3 tank of Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
38 - Black and white photograph showing machine cooling fans in no. 4 tank of Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
39 - Black and white photograph showing machine cooling fans in no. 4 tank of Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
40 - Black and white photograph showing `Morgan Way' at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
41 - Black and white photograph showing close-up of a feeder mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
42 - Black and white photograph showing throat blocks manufactured by Société l'Éléctro Refractaire, France
43 - Black and white photograph showing employees dismantling liner mixer at the old flint batch side at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
44 - Black and white photograph showing employees dismantling liner mixer at the old flint batch side at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
45 - Black and white photograph showing employees dismantling liner mixer at the old flint batch side at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
46 - Black and white photograph showing employees demolishing no. 2 tank to clear way for new batch mixing plant at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
47 - Black and white photograph showing roofs of buildings at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
48 - Black and white photograph showing Morgan Producer dust catcher at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
49 - Black and white photograph showing Morgan Producer dust catcher at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
50 - Black and white photograph showing workmen erecting block 13 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
51 - Black and white photograph showing workmen erecting block 13 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
52 - Black and white photograph showing soda ash bunker and conveyor at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
53 - Black and white photograph showing batch plant being built at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
54 - Black and white photograph showing steel chimney being erected on Lancashire Boiler House at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
55 - Black and white photograph showing erecting crew at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
56 - Black and white photograph showing Donald Turner with gas bottles at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
57 - Black and white photograph showing employees in no. 3 tank electric boost transformer house at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
58 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
59 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
60 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
61 - Black and white photograph showing the effects of fire damage to block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
62 - Black and white photograph showing the effects of fire damage to block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
63 - Black and white photograph showing the effects of fire damage to block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
64 - Black and white photograph showing the effects of fire damage to block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
65 - Black and white photograph showing the effects of fire damage to the roof of block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
66 - Black and white photographs showing the effects of fire damage to the roof of block 9 warehouse at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
67 - Black and white photograph showing the results of fire damage to the roof of block 9 at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
68 - Black and white photograph showing the roof of no. 3 tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
69 - Black and white photograph showing Alf Lowe and his son, scrap merchants, stood next to the waste paper compactor at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
70 - Black and white photograph showing Alf Lowe, scrap merchant, at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
71 - Black and white photograph showing men examining a waste paper compactor at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
72 - Black and white photograph showing the demolition of old mixing bunkers at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
73 - Black and white photograph showing John Pilling, chief engineer; Norman Sim, maintenance engineer; Bob Tennison, Sanders and Forsters; David McLean, foreman electrician in front of the water tower at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
74 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of the boiler house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
75 - Black and white photograph showing No. 3 tankhouse building being erected at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
76 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
77 - Black and white photograph showing boiler house chimney at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
78 - Black and white photograph showing warehouse being erected at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
79 - Black and white photograph showing warehouse being erected at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
80 - Black and white photograph showing No. 6 tank house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
81 - Black and white photograph showing Unit melter no. 1 at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
82 - Black and white photograph showing Unit melter no. 1 at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
83 - Black and white photograph showing old no. 2 tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
84 - Black and white photograph showing Unit melter no. 1 at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
85 - Black and white photograph showing No. 9 tank instrument house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
86 - Black and white photograph showing Unit melter no. 1 at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
87 - Black and white photograph showing flint batch mixing cellar at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
88 - Sepia photograph showing flint batch mixing cellar at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
89 - Black and white photograph showing workmen constructing the automatic batch plant at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
90 - Black and white photograph showing workmen preparing site for unit melters at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
91 - Black and white photograph showing 8 head Mitchell machine in no. 6 tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
92 - Black and white photograph showing workmen building new batch plant at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
93 - Black and white photograph showing two employees shovelling sand into a furnace at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
94 - Sepia photograph showing showing two employees shovelling sand into a furnace at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
95 - Black and white photograph showing empty canteens above the `pot room' near the Hardshaw Lodge at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
96 - Black and white photograph showing interior of `A' sub station at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
97 - Black and white photograph showing interior of `A' sub station at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
98 - Black and white photograph showing 40 PSI compressor house under construction on site of old sand drier and no. 5 tank at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
99 - Black and white photograph showing new air main and new compressor house at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
100 - Black and white photograph showing outlets from 4000 CFM compressors to the new air main at the rear of new compressor house at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
101 - Black and white photograph showing 40 PSI compressed air main on No. 9 tank instrument house roof at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
102 - Black and white photograph showing 40 PSI compressed air main on No. 9 tank instrument house roof at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
103 - Black and white photograph showing 45 PSI air main turning by no. 3 tank (running on over no. 9, 7, and 6 tank instrument house roofs) at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
104 - Black and white photograph showing close-up of Woods fans at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
105 - Black and white photograph showing close-up of Woods fans at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
106 - Black and white photograph showing close-up of Woods fans at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
107 - Black and white photograph showing oil pump house and tank at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
108 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
109 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
110 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
111 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
112 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
113 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
114 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
115 - Black and white photograph showing Lynch 10 glass bottle machine take out mechanism and conveyor to lehr (kiln) mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
116 - Black and white photograph showing Lynch 10 glass bottle machine take out mechanism and conveyor to lehr (kiln) mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
117 - Black and white photograph showing Lynch 10 glass bottle machine take out mechanism and conveyor to lehr (kiln) mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
118 - Black and white photograph showing Lynch 10 glass bottle machine take out mechanism and conveyor to lehr (kiln) mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
119 - Black and white photograph showing Lynch 10 glass bottle machine take out mechanism and conveyor to lehr (kiln) mechanism at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
120 - Black and white photograph showing Honeywell temperature recorders for forehearths at Forster's Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
121 - Black and white photograph showing glass batch plant at Jackson Brothers factory at Knottingley, Yorkshire
122 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
123 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
124 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
125 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
126 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
127 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
128 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
129 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
130 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
131 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
132 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
133 - Black and white photograph showing glass container production by Rockware Glass Limited factory at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster, Yorkshire
134 - Black and white photograph showing bottles on outfeed conveyor from pepaletiser at repack centre of Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens
135 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
136 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
137 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
138 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
139 - Black and white photograph showing sand drier at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
140 - Black and white photograph showing undried sand bunker and infeed conveyor at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
141 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
142 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
143 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
144 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
145 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
146 - Black and white photograph showing batch distribution via a conveyor belt at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
147 - Black and white photograph showing interior of no. 2 tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
148 - Black and white photograph showing branch air main running down between no. 7 and no. 9 tank regenerators at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
149 - Black and white photograph showing 5 section I.S. (Independent section) machine at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
150 - Black and white photograph showing No. 3 tank forehearths and feeders at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
151 - Black and white photograph showing underport mounted oil burners at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
152 - Black and white photograph showing oil firing equipment below tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
153 - Black and white photograph showing steps down to oil pump house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
154 - Black and white photograph showing exterior of oil pump house and storage tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
155 - Black and white photograph showing oil pump house - sub station B at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
156 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 38
157 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 38
158 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 38
159 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine (possibly model 42)
160 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 38
161 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine (possibly model 50)
162 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 50 at 3 position in no. 7 tank of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
163 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine, model 50 possibly in no. 2 tank of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
164 - Black and white photograph showing O'Neill glass bottle machine
165 - Black and white photograph showing Mitchell machine take out, possibly in no. 2 tank at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
166 - Black and white photograph showing interior of gas boost house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
167 - Black and white photograph showing interior of water re-circulation cabinet on furnace electric boost of electrode cooling system at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
168 - Black and white photograph showing cooling fans for no. 6 tank positioned on no. 6 compressor house roof at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
169 - Black and white photograph showing employees loading a lorry with boxes of glass containers in block no. 1 of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
170 - Black and white photograph showing employee loading lorries under covered loading by office block at the canal lodge at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
171 - Black and white photograph showing first IS (independent section) 5 section machine installed at 6/1 position in no. 6 tank of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
172 - Black and white photograph showing first IS (independent section) 5 section machine installed at 6/1 position in no. 6 tank of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
173 - Black and white photograph showing tank blocks assembled at Parkinson and Spencer's factory in Halifax, Yorkshire
174 - Black and white photograph showing interior of gas boost house at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
175 - Black and white photograph showing two employees engaged in fork lift truck training at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
176 - Black and white photograph showing two employees engaged in fork lift truck training at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
177 - Black and white photograph showing two employees engaged in carton assembly training at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
178 - Black and white photograph showing two employees involved in a training exercise in the Decorating department of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
179 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
180 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
181 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
182 - Black and white photograph showing employees involved in a training exercise in the Decorating department of Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
183 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
184 - Black and white photograph showing machinery at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
185 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
186 - Black and white photograph showing two employees engaged in carton assembly training at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
187 - Black and white photograph showing an employee being trained in the Decorating department at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
188 - Black and white photograph showing machine operators being trained at Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
189 - Black and white copy print showing a man demonstrating the mouth blown process of glass blowing
190 - Black and white photograph showing different styles of glass bottles
191 - Black and white photograph showing a Forster's glass display stand at an exhibition
192 - Black and white photograph showing explanatory diagram of Blow and blow single gob process of glass making
193 - Black and white photograph showing functional diagram of container glass manufacture
194 - Black and white photograph showing diagram of cross section through a glass furnace
195 - Black and white photograph showing diagram of Type K gas fired forehearth
3 - Glass photographic negatives related to Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens
4 - Plans, drawings, photographic negatives, agreements and other miscellaneous documents relating to Forsters Glass Company Limited, St.Helens (and its successor Rockware Glass Limited, St.Helens)
5 - A collection of photographs sent by the French company L'Electro Refractaire to Rockware Glass Limited.
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