Publication Account
Date 1985
Event ID 1016536
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016536
Glass making was introduced to Alloa in 1750 by Lady Francis Erskine who persuaded a number of glassworkers to come from Bohemia to establish a works in the town. The factory has remained in production ever since and, although most of the plant is modem, it still retains a 19th century brick glass cone which is the last surviving example of its type in Scotland.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: The Clyde Estuary and Central Region’, (1985).
