Links - UK

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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