The
majority of the web sites containing information about clay pipes
are devoted to sites, makers, and production centers in the United
Kingdom. Some of these sites are museums, some are living history
type arrangements, and some are merely collections or industries
documented in the literature.
England:
The Broseley area
has a museum at the Southern pipeworks site, and a small active
pipe production demonstration. Another site gives passing mention
of the Shropshire
pipe museum. There is also a detailed site that discusses the
Armstrong
family pipemaking tradition . A 1928
newspaper article about the Armstrongs is also available on
line. The Dartford
pipe manufacturing industry is presented online. There is an article
about Swan
Cove clay tobacco pipes, as well as one about Row
clay pipe makers, and a short note regarding pipe making at Old
Leafield.
Allan Peacey has a site about the development of the tobacco
pipe kiln in the British Isles. Ivor Noël Hume illustration
of the evolution of English Clay Tobacco pipes,
1580-1860 is available online. Another site discusses the archaeology
of the clay pipe and the study of smoking.
There is also a Society for Clay Pipe Research (SCPR)
who has put out an informative newsletter in years past. One of
the interesting web pages posted by the society for Society for
Clay Pipe Research is their listing and description of relevant
Museums.
The Society (SCPR) has also posted a short but interesting clay
pipe bibliography.
Ireland: There are also several sites about
Irish clay pipes, including
production in the village of Knockcrochery
in county Roscommon, Ireland. A habitation site reported from Belfast
also includes some pipe information.
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