Nailsea

Waterford, Bristol, and Nailsea -- Ornaments of glass -- Enamels on metal.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

Waterford, Bristol, and Nailsea -- Ornaments of glass -- Enamels on metal.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

Nailsea glass has many peculiar characteristics about it, notably the curiously introduced waved and twisted lines in colours.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

Nailsea glass works were noted for the Italian influence shown in the colour effects produced in them.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

Some of the most pleasing love tokens are those made at Nailsea in

Chats on Household Curios 1900

There were also Nailsea walking sticks made of twisted glass, and many curious cups.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

Many objects which were essentially curios, their utilitarian purposes having always been secondary, were made at Nailsea.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

The so-called rolling-pins of glass, made at Sunderland as well as at Nailsea and Bristol, were known as sailors 'love tokens, and are referred to more fully in Chapter XIII.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

The decision at Nailsea and other schools to forbid skirts springs from the exasperation of administrators and teachers, who were tired of spending precious time forcing students to correct wardrobe malfunctions instead of getting them to ponder the Norman Conquest.

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Nailsea belongs to a small but growing number of schools in Britain that have given up chastising students for hemline creep and instead resorted to what one commentator calls "the nuclear option": blacklisting skirts altogether.

News - latimes.com 2011