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Reflections of a Bygone Age

This set contains old black & white photographs of the working life of the city of Bristol.

In 1933 J.B. Priestly found Bristol a lively, bustling city, 'earning its living and spending its own money .. achieving a new posperity by selling us Gold Flake and Fry's chocolate and soap and clothes and a hundred other things'.

In and around Bristol a number of modern industries have developed, including sugar refining, tobacco processing, cocoa and chocolate making, wine bottling, and the making of fine glass, porcelain, and pottery.

Aircraft are designed and constructed at Filton, just outside Bristol, where the British-French Concorde supersonic airliner was built. BRISTOL GLASS: It is certain that glass was made in Bristol, England, in the 17th century but all records of this early glass have disappeared. However, in 1760 there were fifteen glass factories in Bristol, and the influence of Bristol glass-makers was far reaching. White and colored glass, also cut glass, were produced at Bristol and the list of objects made comprises nearly all the pieces that could be made of glass. Glassmaking was also an important industry in Bristol during the eighteenth century at the start of which the city had the largest concentration of glasshouses outside London.

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items are from between 15 Nov 2007 & 11 Dec 2009.