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Introduction
Bill's Lecture Early Days Cradley Heath, Cradley & Dudley
Additional Material
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The Good Samaritan
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![]() This page and the previous two pages are typical examples of the process of designing a stained glass window. It shows the individual panes of glass, decorated and lettered as appropriate, and the way in which they are joined together using lead channelling. Once the design was finalised it would be transferred to a full scale sheet of paper (lining paper was often used). This would allow the lead to be cut to shape and the glass cut to fit. Each glass panel would then be painted and fired to give the vibrant colours associated with these windows. The final stage is to put the whole assembly together, soldering the lead in place and sealing the lead with a cement to make it waterproof.
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From the 'Stourbridge Stained Glass Works' flier
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St Peter’s Cradley
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The illustrations above are examples of two pages from Bill's design book
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![]() This panel was one of the first he made. It was a present to his mother who lived at 175 High Street Lye. It stood in their front door until Bill’s parents died in the early 1940s and the house was sold. He took out the panel and kept the centrepiece as a memory of his early work.
It depicts Anne Hathaway’s cottage.
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