tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506056614065490208.post1007303131728263225..comments2024-01-07T09:20:39.791+00:00Comments on Geology in the West Country: 14th December - Bristol Red and Bristol BlueGraemehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13725221769790940627noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506056614065490208.post-50385627393169405302015-04-09T12:33:19.562+00:002015-04-09T12:33:19.562+00:00Benjamin is correct. Peter HEWLETT revived Bristo...Benjamin is correct. Peter HEWLETT revived Bristol Blue Glass and as his wife, I should know - I was there!<br />Peter sadly died unexpectedly in April 2013.<br />Both myself and Peter attended the opening of Peter StClair's shop on Park Street Bristol about 18 months to 2 years AFTER Peter HEWLETT had been producing Blue Glass. Any claims by anyone else to have revivied production before Peter HEWLETT are eroneous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506056614065490208.post-26137980485367577762010-12-31T19:46:06.418+00:002010-12-31T19:46:06.418+00:00I don't know Peter Hewlett, but recently I had...I don't know Peter Hewlett, but recently I had a long one-to-one conversation with James Adlington, who then gave me a personal tour of his Bristol Blue Glass factory, and historic glass collection, in Brislington. Bristol Museum states that Bristol Blue should now be regarded as a colour, and not an indication of where an item was made. Cookworthy bought the exclusive rights to import Saxon smalt through the port of Bristol, from whence it was distributed up and down the country, mainly for use by potters, not glassmakers.<br /><br />Did you get to my lecture ? If you live locally, I may be able to repeat it to an interested audience. Cheers!<br />Ian Donaldson.Ian Donaldsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063108472147509902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506056614065490208.post-87213071425308352632010-12-03T20:03:23.127+00:002010-12-03T20:03:23.127+00:00Bristol Blue Glass was revived by Peter Hewlett in...Bristol Blue Glass was revived by Peter Hewlett in the 1980s, almost 70 years after the last Blue Glass factory closed in the the early 1900s. Any company claiming to be the original today is bogus.Benjamin Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14253548056979719982noreply@blogger.com