A posh people’s shop is keeping the name of Nailsea’s heritage alive with a range of modern glassware.

And thanks to a Daily Mail feature on a kitchen refit at 11 Downing Street we learn that customers David and Samantha Cameron paid £25 for their set of six Nailsea water glasses.

But in all probability the tumblers have as much to do with Nailsea, North Somerset, as a stick of Brighton rock has to do with its seaside namesake.

The ministerial four-bed central London flat got a £64,000 refurbishment when the Cameron family chose it as their home instead of the more cramped accommodation next door at No10.

Mrs Cameron shopped for some of the new fixtures and fittings at OKA an upmarket mail order store launched in the late 1990s by her mother Lady Annabel Astor.

However, in its current catalogue only three items with the Nailsea tag are on offer – small and large wine glasses and some Champagne flutes which all retail at more than £30 a set.

To be fair to the Cameron’s they also shopped at John Lewis and other suppliers for their household accessories.

The first newspaper feature about the refit in 2011 criticised the new kitchen on its ‘formality’ but this was when Mrs Cameron was entertaining US first lady Michelle Obama.

We don’t know if she drank out of anything with a Nailsea label.

A more recent rehash of the story this January shows a more ‘relaxed’ and homely approach for a charity breakfast with special needs children and their parents again with a mention for Nailsea glass.

The history of Nailsea glassworks begun in the 18th century and is beautifully illustrated in a tiled mural on the wall of the Tesco supermarket at the end of the High Street, pictured below.

Most of the glasswork remains are under the store and car park but a new £250,000 park, set to open soon, includes a ‘telebubbies-style’ grass mould under which are what remains of the industrial structure now designated as a scheduled monument.

The cone had all but disappeared and many garden rockeries on the new housing estates are believed to have their roots in the glasswork bricks.

Nailsea workers made bottle glass and some window glass from 1788- 1873 using coal from local mines to fuel the furnaces.

At the end of their shift many glassworkers especially apprentices modelled decorative household items to sell and it is these which have become collectors’ items worldwide.

The Antique Bible warns to beware of fakes  ‘...because so few pieces of Nailsea Glass actually were made in Nailsea, England, they are valuable and have become prized possessions...’.