Hywel and Michelene Harris

Lady Bay Art Glass was started in 1993 and is family owned and run by Hywel and Michelene Harris. We became interested in leaded glass in the late 1970's and the public obsession for terrariums started us on the road of making and selling gift items at craft fairs.

 

This developed over the next 15 years into the range of stained glass gifts that we still make and sell today and also into the realms of traditional leaded panels, first as the repair of panels brought to us and then on to designing and making panels to commission.

 

A photo of our craft fair stall ca. 1981

Moving into a 1906 house in the area of Lady Bay in West Bridgford, Nottingham (just down the road from the Trent Bridge cricket ground) in 1985, we found that in trying to find suitable designs for a set of stained glass panels for our sitting room most of the patterns available were quite unsuitable. So out of our search came the idea for the business. Most of our work now comes from within the immediate locality, an area with approx. 10,000 houses, the majority having been built between 1890 and 1939.

Laurence Harris


We are very pleased to have Laurence, our younger son join the business part time from March of 2010. Not only is he helping to get the workload under control so that we can offer sensible lead times for leaded light work, he is also instrumental in creating the online sales part of the business.