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Red House Glass Cone actually is a glassware manufaturing factory located at Wordsley, Birmingham adjacent to Stourbridge canal. The Cone was used as chimney of glass melting furnace. The Cone has 100 ft height and 30 ft base diameter made of bricks and fireclay. The water way of canal was used for transport of coal and raw materials used to producing glass. In those time French glassmakers used to work in glass factories. Stourbridge Glassware were recognised as the finest in the world. The Glass Cone was built in1790 and has been used for manufacturing glassware, glass pottery, artistic gift items, decorative glass items till 1936. Later on it was converted in to heritage museum and nicely preserved. There are Cafe, Craft Studios, Exhibitions gallary with sale counter in its premises for visitors. I had visited it with my elder brother in January, 2020. It was a wonderful experience. Here they give free demonstrations of glassmaking. We saw whole glassmaking process from start to finish. Entry in to the museum is free. There is also free car park. One must visit this...
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Wow! I was visiting the glass museum over the road and decided to pay a quick visit here... I was not disappointed!
Such a beautiful site next to the canal, I can't believe it was free to view! The cone itself blew me away, so much beauty in a structure and it's been recently renovated. It was so interesting and beautiful
The staff were all super friendly and lovely and had fantastic knowledge. I love visiting places like this where the staff genuinely care and love what they do.
The gift shop was lovely and spacious and I brought a few items from here. The staff were helpful and friendly too!
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It’s open! The restored cone was opened to the public in August 2024, to coincide with the International Festival of Glass. And what a brilliant restoration! It is empty, sadly – the internal fire and internal structures are all missing, but the main structure is super-impressive. Importantly, the world’s only surviving moving Lehr is there. So long as you have someone knowledgeable to guide you, it is truly fascinating (and without a guide it might be boring). We were fortunate to be shown around by Jez, from Dudley Council, who explained everything...
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