Repairs

Can you spot the reproduced piece of painted glass? Here at The Stonehouse, we often take a pile of neglected glass, and return it to its majestic glory. Sometimes, it takes a little magic to make that happen. Sometimes that magic hits some speed bumps. Let us start with the final piece. This unique and delicately painted window from England, cira 1880, was once a pair of windows. One window, perfectly intact, was kept as part of our private collection. A matching window was not so lucky. The lead on the second window had suffered corrosion, a few of the...

Over the years we have purchased thousands of windows. Most windows came from the area immediately surrounding the City of Manchester. However, we also travelled west to Liverpool, Preston, and Blackpool. Our travels to the east took us to Sheffield, and in the southeast we made purchases in Nottingham and Leister. For a few of the early years (the late 1980’s), we made purchases in Glasgow, Scotland). On one of our trips in 1992 we heard that some someone in Wales had a set of large windows. Obviously, we had to drive down and check out that ‘lead’. This was...