Rockware Glass

Rockware Glass is a UK company manufacturing glass containers.

The company has a works at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Rockware became part of Ardagh Glass in 2006.

Rockware's former works by the Grand Union Canal in Greenford, London, developed from W.A.Bailey's glassworks founded in 1900 and Purex lead works. By 1959 Rockware employed 1,220 people on a 14 hectare (35 acre) site. [cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46544 | title='Greenford: Economic and social history'| publisher=Victoria County History| work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), pp. 212-215 | accessdate=2007-10-11] The Greenford works closed in 1973 [ [http://www.competition-commission.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/1976_1979/fulltext/111c03.pdf Competition Commission Rockware Group Limited, United Glass Limited, Redfearn National Glass Limited: A Report on the Proposed Mergers] ] and is commemorated by Rockware Avenue.

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