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Description: | W.I. Cookson established his company in 1847 as a manufacturer of colours. In 1851 he started to produce the lead needed for the colours as well. Several lead products were produced in his works at Howdon on Tyneside. In the 1920s Cookson and Company merged with another company and sold their lead manufacturing interests to a new company. These bottles, containing lead carbonate samples, were produced by the new Cookson Lead and Antimony Company. The manufacture of lead products was a highly toxic process, which led to the early deaths of many, mostly female, workers. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East industry | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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