The Be-Ze-Be Honey Company

The Be-Ze-Be Honey Company arrived in Slough in 1924 and set up premises on the Slough Trading Estate. The firm expanded in 1930 and took on an additional factory on the Estate. It stayed on Slough Industrial Estate until 1938, when it moved to premises on the Bath Road. The Company remained on the Bath Road until the 1960s (unfortunately I do not have an exact year).

Reference:

Eleanor Pulfer, Curator. Slough Museum, 278-286 High Street, Slough, SL1 1NB. Tel : 01753 526422

http://www.sloughmuseum.co.uk

See Minor Reg Numbers reference photograph 0245-1

M&J Guggenheim

Please note that the Guggenheim company was a London-based importer, who registered design numbers for glass, most of which were made by the Libochovice company.

Reference:

Marcus Newhall.

http://sklounion.com

List of Glasshouses Newcastle – Sunderland

Joseph Kirkup and company

Southwick Crown-Glass Company

The company was trading as Joseph Kirkup and company up to the 30th of April 1801, when Joseph Kirkup resigned. The Company now traded as Southwick Crown-Glass Company and Thomas Kirkup resigned on the 17th of August 1801 and the other partners, Thomas Burn, Thomas Longridge and George Brumell continued on the business. Interesting they had a sales office at Warwick-Row, Surrey-Road and Dowgate – Hill London.

Wearsmouth Crown Glass Company (Southwick)

This partnership consisted of Charles Attwood, Edward Attwood, and John Matteson. Charles Attwood retires on the 5th of November 1836.

North Durham Glass Bottle

The Partnership between John Heron Mason and George Walker, carrying on the business of Glass Bottle Manufacturers, at Blaydon, in the County of Durham, under the style or firm of the North Durham Glass Bottle Company, has been this day dissolved on this date 13th of February 1855. Thomas Burnett was involved in the business but had retired at an earlier date. John Heron Mason probably continued on trading and ceased trading around 1857.

The Blaydon Glass Bottle Company

The Yorkshire Bottle Company

The Partnership between Alfred Alexander, Anthony Thatcher, James Battle Austin, and Henry Poole, carrying on business as Bottle Manufacturers and Bottle Merchants, under the style of The Blaydon Glass Bottle Company, at Blaydon, in the county of Durham, and under the style of the Yorkshire Bottle Company, at Victoria wharf, Earl-street, and in Brick hill-lane, Upper Thames, street, both in the city of London, was dissolved by mutual consent, on the 2th of July 1860 - instant, so far as concerns the undersigned Anthony Thatcher, who has retired from the business

Alexander and Austin,

The Partnership between Alfred Alexander and James Battle Austin, carrying on business as Glass Bottle Manufacturers and Merchants, at Victoria wharf, Earl-street, Blackfriars, in the city of London, at Blaydon-on-Tyne, and Southwick, Sunderland, under the style or firm of Alexander and Austin, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to or by the said firm will be received and paid by the said Alfred Alexander. The date is 1ST of July 1873.

ALFRED ALEXANDER AND CO.

George Edward Alexander, Ernest Alexander, and Thomas Henry Mc Morland, carrying on business as Glass Bottle Manufacturer's and Merchants, at No. 63, Fenchurch-street, in the city of London, and at Blaydon and Low Southwick, both in the county of Durham, and at Albert-street, and Love-lane, Hunslet, in the borough of' Leeds, in the county of York,, under the style or firm of "ALFRED ALEXANDER AND CO.," has been dissolved from the 30th of January 1908. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said George Edward Alexander and Ernest Alexander, who will continue to carry on the said business under the same style or firm of "Alfred Alexander and Co.

REFERENCES:

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk

List of Glasshouses Newcastle – Sunderland

James Hartley and William Kirk

The Partnership between James Hartley and William Kirk, as Glass Bottle Manufacturers and Glass Bottle Merchants, at Sunderland, in the county of Durham and elsewhere, was on the 7th of July, 1859, dissolved, by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the said parties will be received and paid by the said William Kirk, by whom the business will in future be carried .

AYRES QUAY BOTTLE COMPANY

The Partnership between Walter Horn, Hugh Laing, Frank Allen Horn, Nathan Horn Scott, and Robert Scott, carrying on business as Glass Bottle Manufacturers and Salesmen, at Ayres Quay, and Hendon, Sunderland, and Concordia Wharf, Cold harbour, Poplar, in the county of London, under the style or firm of the AYRES QUAY BOTTLE COMPANY, has been dissolved by mutual consent as of and from the 15th of January, 1907, so far as regards the said Robert Scott.

In 1832 there was 50 workmen employed by the Ayres Quay Bottle Company (reference a letter written by John Habbard to George Stephenson secretary of the board of health about the cholera outbreak of December 1830 and 1831

References

The CHOLERA Gazette no 1, January 14 1832

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk

List of Glasshouses Newcastle – Sunderland

Green Glass Bottle-Manufacturers

Trading As

Bridge Bottle Company, of Sunderland,

The Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, John Ritson, John Hartforth, Thomas Parker, John Lotherington, William Snowball, Hill Parker, Hepburn Thomson, Thomas Taylor, and David Jonassohn, as Green Glass Bottle-Manufacturers, carrying on trade at Bishop Wearsmouth, in the County of Durham, under the style or firm of the Bridge Bottle Company, of Sunderland, was dissolved, so far as it concerns the said Hepburn Thompson and Thomas Taylor on the 22d day of May last ( 1829 ), and was further dissolved so far as it concerns the said David Jonassohn on the 1st day of January1830.

REFERENCES:

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk