span class="large"a href="http://www.plowden-thompson.com/"; target="_blank"strongPlowden amp; Thompson/strong/a is one of the few glass factories remaining in the West Midlands and is one of only two working cones in the UK.br/br/The company boast a diverse range of products and skills and specialise in hand producing coloured glass rod for lamp working, tube, pressed ware amp; cut crystal. br/br/They mix their own batch amp; produce a variety of glasses, ranging from borosilicate to lead crystal. /span