Housing takes over canalside museum

A FAMOUS canalside glassworks museum is to give way to housing on the Stourbridge Canal.

The very well known feature on the Stourbridge Flight is one of the now few remaining cone kilns of the historic former Stuart Crystal glassworks site, part of which will become a canalside housing estate, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Titanic

Though turned into a museum, the Grade II listed former factory was still producing glass as an attraction for visitors, but during its heyday was famed for its quality, some of which is the most sought after in the world, as it produced the glassware for the Titanic, most of which of course lies on the bottom of the Atlantic.

But now, part of its property is to be turned into a housing estate of around 50 houses, with the museum accommodated in units, with work on these due to start after the houses are built.

Second attempt

Morris Homes Ltd have submitted a planning application for a mix of houses and flats. This is the second time an attempt has been made to build houses at the glassworks, but last time the slump in the housing market  stopped the development.

The houses will of course be built by the side of the waterway, as is now the practice, as they then attract a higher price.