BRITISH GLASS

STOURBRIDGE GLASS MUSEUM HOW IT CAME INTO BEING

A brand new book by Graham Fisher MBE is now available to purchase in the museum at £10 per copy with all proceeds going to the charity.

Stourbridge Glass Museum; how it came into being by Graham Fisher (with a Foreword by Lynn Boleyn MBE) is a comprehensive and absorbing account of how Stourbridge Glass Museum was created on the vandalised and burnt-out site of the former Stuart glassworks in Wordsley.

Graham’s new work covers the intense period of just thirteen years – a remarkably quick timescale – from BGF’s formation through to the official opening in 2023 of a brand-new, purpose-built canalside facility that will conserve and promote both the heritage and the future of local glassmaking for generations to come.

Graham Knowles, Chairman of the British Glass Foundation said: ‘Graham has captured the essence of creating what we consider is a ‘People’s Museum’ from the relics of a former glassmaking site that, more than 20 years after its closure, is still regarded locally with great affection. His latest book is a fascinating narrative in its own right but his recording of how we arrived here will doubtless prove of immense value to researchers and historians yet to be born’.