| AdminHistory | The cone was built some time between 1788 and 1794 by Richard Bradley. It is almost 100 feet high and 60 feet wide. In 1809 it was owned by Bradley Ensells & Holt making flint glass. It was sold to Richard Bradley Ensall in 1827 for £1147. In 1830 it was sold to Rufford & Co., Bankers and bought by Edward Webb in 1852. A lease was taken out on the works by Phillip Pargeter in 1869. Frederick Stuart took on the lease of the Redhouse Glassworks on 19th April 1881. In 1883 he went into partnership with his sons, William Henry, Frederick the younger, Robert, Arthur and George to become Stuart & Sons. Frederick senior retired in 1897 and died in 1900. The firm became a limited company in 1911. Stuart & Sons became the owners of the Red House on 3rd September 1920. The furnaces were put out in 1936 and production moved to their new site in Vine Street. The cone became a listed building in 1971 and was restored in 1982. It opened as the Redhouse Glassworks Working Museum in 1984. Stuart Crystal closed and moved production abroad in 2002. |