Corning Museum of Glass

I couldn't resist this - it was in the exhibition entitled 'Curiosities of Glassmaking' - full of fantastic exhibits such as glass made when lightening struck sand dunes etc. The two green vessels are – you’ll never guess – Fire Grenades. They’re blown glass from 17-18th century Europe and must’ve been hugely effective… not. They were filled with water and tossed into the fire. So now you know what to do next time there’s a bush fire.


This is a glass mosaic from the end of the nineteenth century. T'were a very beautiful thing.

Glass exhibition - Bovey Tracey

Here's an opportunity not to be missed - an international glass exhibition in Devon! It's been organised by the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) - click on their link on the right of this page to find out more about them and about the glassy happenings in the south west over the next few weeks organised as their ten-year anniversary celebration.

The CGS is also organising a fab conference rather unimaginatively entitled 'Looking into Glass' at the end of this month. If you're interested I have the details at Queens Road, or you can find them on the CGS website too.