First, a word of guidance on the best way to look at my photos. Find a way to the Albums page (possibly go to my Photostream, then I think you can click on "Albums") and it is like a menu of which stained glass artists I have included. Clicking on one of the sets will take you to all the pictures of glass by that artist. I have now also added more Albums, organising the photos by county.

I am researching the life and work of a Chester-based stained glass artist named Trena Mary Cox, who worked between 1924 and 1972. I have been able to sort out many of the details of her life and have compiled a catalogue of her windows.

Trena was born on the Wirral in 1895. She moved to Chester in 1924 to open a stained glass studio. She lived and worked in Chester until she retired in 1972 (at the age of 77!). She then lived on in the same house until her death in 1980. During her working life she designed and made just over 100 stained glass windows. Most of her stained glass windows are in the old counties of Cheshire and Lancashire, although a few are as far afield as Sussex, Norfolk and Yorkshire. For more details about the life and work of Trena Cox, see the article at the following website:

www.buildingconservation.com/books/eccles.htm

There are still details about Trena's life that elude me. I know where she trained in art, but who taught her the art of stained glass? What did she look like (I have not yet found any photos of her!)? What happened to her drawings, tools etc. when she retired? I still hope to track down these pieces of information.

I intend to upload quite a few photos of her windows here, because I think she made some beautiful stained glass windows and deserves to be better known. I hope you agree.

I also intend to upload my photographs of Arts & Crafts stained glass windows, especially by Christopher Whall and his pupils, as these are what got me interested in stained glass in the first place.

I have also added a set of photographs of my local church, St Mary & Christ Church, Llanfairfechan, North Wales. I think the church deserves to be better known, with woodwork and decoration by Llanfairfechan's own Arts & Crafts architect, Herbert Luck North, stained glass by Clayton & Bell, Hardman, Kempe, Charles Powell and F C Eden and with a three-manual William Hill organ.

Finally (for now) I have added some photographs of stained glass in St Peter's, Little Newcastle, Pembrokeshire. It is not Arts & Crafts, but it is wonderful. However, you really need to visit the church and stand in the middle to fully appreciate the beautiful stained glass.