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Smethwick's Chances Glassworks 'at risk'

Chances Glassworks in Smethwick was established in the early 19th Century, and made window, optical and specialist glass - including window glass for the Houses of Parliament.

Significant areas of archaeological survival are known to exist within the site, including the bases of up to six furnaces and the major tunnels and flues, providing potentially the most extensive area of surviving Victorian glass manufacture in the country.

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