# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Short history of the Chance Brothers- the Worlds Largest Glassmakers 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: A Short History of the Chance Brothers – Speaker Henry Chance.

Sat 24 Jan 2026
Time: 2.30pm-4.30pm 
Venue: St Peters Church Hall, Pedmore, Stourbridge, DY9 0SW
 
The firm of Chance Brothers was established in the Regency era, and by the time of the Great Exhibition ( for which it produced all the glass), it was the largest glassmaker in the world. 
A century later, they had supplied more than half of the lighthouse lenses around the globe and been one of the unsung heroes of the Great War, but fell out of family ownership into the hands of a rival. 
Henry Chance is descended from both of the firm's founders and is the grandson of the last family chairman of the firm, Sir High Chance. 
Henry’s picture-led presentation describes how an enterprise started from a single glass furnace in Smethwick to become a byword for scientific innovation and a trailblazer for workers' welfare and philanthropy. It ends with a description f of the work of the trust which has been set up to save what remains of the old glassworks.  

#ChanceBrothers
#GlassIndustry
#HenryChance
#GreatExhibition
# Lighthouses
#Smethwick
#Key Hill Cemetery
#Warstone Lane Cemetery
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/stourbridge/a-short-history-of-the-chance-brothers-the-worlds-largest-glassmakers/200029554940935
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://midland-ancestors.uk/event/agm-and-short-history-of-the-chance-brothers/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=stourbridge-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Stourbridge
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: St Peters Church Hall,  Pedmore, Stourbridge. DY9 0SW
- **lat**: 52.43774
- **long**: -2.13091
- **full address**: St Peters Church Hall,  Pedmore, Stourbridge. DY9 0SW, Stourbridge, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Midland Ancestors (https://allevents.in/org/midland-ancestors/24335140)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 02:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** St Peters Church Hall,  Pedmore, Stourbridge. DY9 0SW, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Midland Ancestors
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about A Short history of the Chance Brothers- the Worlds Largest Glassmakers  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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