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unusual facts about Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles


Clifton railway station, Greater Manchester

The three factories were Magnesium Elektron Ltd, Chloride Batteries Ltd and Pilkington's Tiles Ltd.


Barry Ion

While in Adelaide, Ion began working for 5AD and formed a radio breakfast duo with Tony Pilkington called "Bazz and Pilko".

Britannia High

The show starred Sapphire Elia, Georgina Hagen, Mitch Hewer, Rana Roy, Matthew James Thomas and Marcquelle Ward, as well as Adam Garcia as the dance mentor, Lorraine Pilkington as the music mentor and Mark Benton as the school principal and acting mentor.

Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar

The architect is unknown; Colonel Pilkington of the Royal Engineers was in charge of the work.

Chevet, West Yorkshire

The house was built in 1529 by the Nevile family and was bought in 1765 by Sir Lionel Pilkington, 5th Baronet and passed down through the Pilkington family.

CSR Limited

In 2007, CSR acquired the Australasian glass businesses of Pilkington and the Melbourne based glass processing company DMS Glass, subsequently renaming both as Viridian.

Custom Blue

Originating from South London, Alex Pilkington and Simon Shippey met at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, and started the band in 1995 with originally Crispin Weir on guitar and Max Tundra on bass, along with a succession of drummers.

Diepsloot

Karl Pilkington visited Diepsloot and talked to a group of students as a part of Season Two of An Idiot Abroad in 2011.

Doris Pilkington Garimara

She is best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine weeks to return to their family.

Dörte Gatermann

One of the numerous awards she has won over the years was the Pilkington glass company prize for Innovation and Architecture in 2006 as a result of her innovative use of glass in the Triangle building.

Florian Pilkington-Miksa

Florian Pilkington-Miksa (born 3 June 1950, Roehampton, South West London) was the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air.

Fourcault process

In terms of economics and product quality the Fourcault process has been supplanted in many countries by the Pilkington developed "Float" process.

Glass production

The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named after the British glass manufacturer Pilkington, who pioneered the technique (invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington) in the 1950s.

Harry Pilkington

William Henry ('Harry') Pilkington, Baron Pilkington (1905–1983) was a glass manufacturer and former President of the Federation of British Industries but who is remembered politically as chairman of the controversial Pilkingon Committee that produced the Pilkington Report of 1962.

Heinz Wolff

In 2007 Wolff made a guest appearance on Channel 4's Comedy Lab episode "Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool", where he is seen explaining to Pilkington the sudden rise of intelligence in Homo sapiens.

Ho Hum Records

It was founded in 2007 in Crystal Palace, South London by Alex Pilkington and Mark Tucker, who between them have worked as songwriters, producers and engineers in a wide variety of genres and influenced by the state of the recording industry in 2007, decided to begin a new record label with focus on sustaining careers for artists and by offering recording and production time in their own studios, as well as space on their web-site to promote their music.

I Wonder as I Wander

Westminster Choir College performs an arrangement by Steve Pilkington annually at its Readings and Carols concert.

Kevin Pilkington

Gary Walsh was sold to Middlesbrough just before the start of the 1995–96 season, enabling Pilkington to become United's second choice goalkeeper.

Coton left for Sunderland just before the start of the 1996–97 season, but Pilkington's hopes of becoming second choice goalkeeper again were ended by the arrival of 33-year-old Dutchman Raimond van der Gouw.

Manchester High School for Girls

Julia Bodmer, nee Pilkington, Manchester High School pupil: 1945 - 1953, discovered the details of the Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) with genetic differences causing transplant rejection, and was married to Sir Walter Bodmer, who was the first Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, Chancellor of the University of Salford from 1995 to 2005 and Principal from 1996 to 2005 of Hertford College, Oxford

Manchester School of Art

When founded, the school promoted the Arts and Crafts movement's philosophy and its collection includes metalwork, jewellery, wallpapers, a tapestry made by Morris & Co. designed by Edward Burne-Jones, Whitefriars glass by James Powell and Sons and George Henry Walton, silverware by Charles Robert Ashbee and ceramics from Pilkington's Art Pottery.

Mark R. Bacon

He moved to Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1895 and became associated with the Michigan Alkali Company through his marriage to Mary Ford, the granddaughter of founder Jean-Baptiste Ford (and the daughter of Edward Ford, founder of Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, subsequently part of Libbey-Owens Ford Glass and the Pilkington).

Medicals RFC

Medicals RFC are most famous for the 1995-6 side that reached the final of the RFU Pilkington Shield at Twickenham and won the trophy – beating Helston RFC, Cornwall 16 v 6.

The finest hour of the clubs achievement was on 4 May 1996 Twickenham, winners of the National Junior Club Knock-out Competition, The Pilkington Shield.

Milwr Tunnel

Low lead prices in 1938 caused the majority of the workforce to be temporarily laid off, but Pilkington's Glass began using the tunnel to excavate high quality limestone from 1939; this quarrying continued until 1969, creating large artificial caverns west of Olwyn Goch.

Nippon Sheet Glass

Following an agreed acquisition of 20% of Pilkington of the United Kingdom in 2001, in 2006 NSG purchased the residual 80% of shares, a company then double its size.

Norlane, Victoria

Much of the housing was for employees at the nearby Ford Motor Company, International Harvester, Shell, Pilkington Glass, Hendersons and Pivot Phosphate factories.

Pilkington

Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass manufacturing company headquartered in St Helens, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japan-based NSG Group.

In late 2005 the company received a takeover bid from the smaller Japanese company NSG.

Pilkington of Lancashire

In 1430 Margaret settled the manors of her inheritance which included Stagenhoe in Hertfordshire, Clipston, Northamptonshire and Brixworth in Northamptonshire, and Bressingham in Norfolk, on her Pilkington sons, John, Edmund (d. about 1451), and Robert (d. 1457).

Radio LaB

The station was once again managed by final year students – in 2005 Jade Orsmond, Alan Pilkington, Cyrella McGreevy, Jessica Jackson and Dan Prior (now at NME Radio).

Thomas Pilkington

He was son of Thomas Pilkington of Northampton, by his second wife, Anne Mercer, and grandson of John Pilkington of Oakham in Rutland.

William Pilkington

Harry Pilkington (William Henry Pilkington, 1905–1983), glass manufacturer


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