Editing North East England (section)

===Glass===
Glass manufacture has been an important industry in the Northeast of England since stained glass glaziers worked on the Wearmouth and Jarrow monasteries in 674&nbsp;AD.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=I-Net Support|title=Weardale Way|url=http://www.weardaleway.wanadoo.co.uk/history1.html|access-date=16 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131032803/http://www.weardaleway.wanadoo.co.uk/history1.html|archive-date=31 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=British Broadcasting Corp|title=Glassmaking on Wearside|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2008/02/04/glassmaking_wearside_04022008_feature.shtml|access-date=16 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220154147/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2008/02/04/glassmaking_wearside_04022008_feature.shtml|archive-date=20 December 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]] and Tyneside were noted for glass-making between the 17th and 19th centuries.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Victorian County History|title=Sunderland Lime Glass and Pottery Paper|date=23 November 2008 |url=http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/lime_glass_pottery_paper.pdf|access-date=16 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103163339/http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/lime_glass_pottery_paper.pdf|archive-date=3 November 2013}}</ref> In 1827 about two fifths of all English glass was made in the Tyneside area and in 1845 South Shields was making more plate glass than anywhere else in England. Sunderland was also rising to prominence as a glass-making centre, with James Hartley's [[Hartley Wood and Co|Wear Glass Works]] opening in 1836,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Tyne & Wear Archive Services|title=Hartley Wood and Co Ltd|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=183-dshw&cid=0#0|access-date=16 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102154921/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=183-dshw&cid=0|archive-date=2 November 2013}}</ref> and by 1865 one third of the sheet glass in England was supplied by his Sunderland works.
The Candlish Glass Bottleworks was the largest in Europe, managed by [[John Candlish]]

[[William Beilby]] produced decorative glass items in Newcastle during the mid 1700s.