We have just had a visit to our workshops by two French visitors. Madame
Marie-Agnes Laudes, the Commercial Attache to the Bristish Embassy in
Paris, over in the South West on a visit to various companies, spent an
afternoon at our workshops, fascinated by the process of glass-blowing.
As she said, it was the high-light of her trip, and made such a change
from sitting in offices and looking at power-point displays. She was
accompanied from Paris by our newly appointed French Agent, Madam Sarah
Ouazani, who returned to Paris with a case full of samples including our
Silver Luxury range, and our new Silver-leaf range.

In the evening, our French visitors accompanied the Company Secretary, Dr. Burroughes, to a
meeting of the Clifton Village and Hotwells History Society, where he
gave a talk on the history of glass, with special reference to the glass
industry in Bristol. The members were able to pass round examples from
Dr. Burroughes’ private collection of glass, and were thrilled to be
able to handle pieces of glass from Roman times to the modern day, and
from around the world, including two particularly rare examples of
seventeenth century glass from China. Of particular interest to them
were the examples of glass from Bristol, from the early eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, including of course glass made and signed from the
famous Lazarus workshop.