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Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Shop with a range of some twenty glass shapes, all based on 18th century inspired designs, from 1975 until 1990. Bristol-based glass makers James Adlington and Peter Sinclair held their Hot Glass exhibition in 1988 at Hand Made Glass, Bristol, which led to a revival of Bristol's hand blown glass industry, and to the creation of a company that has spawned the careers of many other studio glassmakers in the southwest of England. Today, Bristol Blue Glass is produced by The Original Bristol Blue Glass Ltd in
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