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Makers: 4 of 5

  • British Luxfer Syndicate Ltd., London [1898-1929]
  • Brooks Thomas & Co. Ltd., Dublin
  • Cretestone Ltd.
  • M. Fitzgerald & Co., Dublin
  • Greener & Co., Sunderland, England; [1885-1921]
    • Former Wear Flint Glass Works
    • 1858 Founded as [James] Angus and [Henry] Greener
    • 1869 Angus RIP; Renamed Henry Greener [Flint Glass Works?]
    • 1882 Greener RIP
    • 1885 Bought by James Augustus Jobling; Renamed Greener & Co.; New trademark
    • 1921 Produced PYREX; shortly renamed James A. Jobling and Company
    • 1973 Taken over by Corning
    • 1975 Renamed Corning Ltd.
    • "From 1878, the company put more effort into making less intricate items such as pavement lights and slabs of glass and this was carried on by his son Edward until 1884." ...after 1887... "Soon, the company was producing over 600 domestic items in all colours, as well as commercial products, such as pavement lights and glasses and lenses for ships, railways, lighthouses, and tramcars." --Greener Pressed Glass
  • Hayward Brothers, London
  • John Healey Ltd., London
  • J. A. King & Co., Ltd., London
  • Improved Pavement Light Company Ltd. (Rd No. 48677)
  • Lenscrete, London [?-1959-1967] (acquired by Luxfer Pavement Lights Ltd)
  • Luxfer Ltd., London
  • [1929-1940-?]
  • Mackenzie & Moncur Ltd., Balcarres Street, Edinburgh, "c.1850's - 1970's ?"
    • "Specialists in hothouses and conservatories - Sefton pool Skibo. Tulialan, Kew, Ardgillan Castle, Ireland. Also pavement lights / drain covers." --Scottish Ironwork
    • "Main works in Balcarres Street, Edinburgh. Dates of Operation: c.1850's - 1970's? Also owned a foundry in Slateford Road. Agents in Glasgow And Edinburgh. Major Glasshouse builders in Edinburgh specialising in large structures and mechanical systems (heating etc.) for hothouses. Contempories and rivals of Charles D. Young in Edinburgh. Range of products: Conservatories, hothouses, gates, fountains, garden chairs, iron cisterns, espaliers, summer houses, verandas, pavilions, wrought iron boilers & fittings, gratings, pipes, finials, crestings, radiators, domestic engineering appliances, iron stairs. Specialised in the manufacture of pavement 'lights' and municipal castings." --Scottish Ironwork
  • Patent Pavement Light Company Ltd.
  • St. Pancras Ironworks, London ("??? Engineers, St. Pancras Rd., London")
    • "...the disused nineteenth century St Pancras Ironworks, in a courtyard off York Way in Islington." (excerpt from this BBC article titled Heritage protection tax urged
    • "...St. Pancras ironworks, a building which is considered to be the most significant unlisted building in the immediate area." (from The United Kingdom Parliament, Column 959)
  • Tonge & Taggart Ltd., Dublin [?-1968-1976-?]
  • UNILUX Pty Limited