Holdings Country Pottery - Lancashire - June 2012

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Holdings Country Pottery - Lancashire
June 2012


Brief History

Holding's Country Pottery was founded in 1842 by James Holding, but it was not originally located, where it is now. The original pottery was built a short distance away in Gaulkthorn, another outlying area of Oswaldtwistle.
In 1860 James Holding moved his business to Broadfield, then in 1900 his son Grimshaw Holding set up the pottery on the present site.
From then on the pottery stayed put and the business passed down from father to son until it's decline.
Originally it was powered by a steam engine (not longer in situ) but the line shafting is still present.​

The Explore

This was a pretty amazing site, probably the best one on the trip because of the amount of things to photograph! Generally a pretty easy explore apart from the lack of walking space in some areas - it's hard trying to avoid standing on things! I had searched many reports before deciding on this location and it was all based on a couple of images that I really liked, including one of a British Flag which I can only say has been stolen now. I was very shocked to see alot of personal family photographs around the site including Wedding pics. I find it hard to believe that the owners would not want any of these back?!​

The Photographs

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Thanks for looking! Comments are welcome as always :)

Next site coming very soon....
 
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Looks like you had a great day for it!! :)

Good to see we both share a similar 'eye' for a pic, I have some almost identical! :p

Loving the close up shots of pages etc, nice spin on the place. Thanks for sharing ;)
 
Looks like you had a great day for it!! :)

Good to see we both share a similar 'eye' for a pic, I have some almost identical! :p

Loving the close up shots of pages etc, nice spin on the place. Thanks for sharing ;)

I noticed that when I got back and took a look through a couple of the more recent threads :lol:

The weather was great, although a little too much direct sun when I was in here, a nightmare at times! I think I got here at around mid-day though so was at it's worst.

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated! :)
 
Lovely pics,good to see this place again.
Apparently the owner gets really cheesed off when pics appear online of this place,he should secure it,if its such a problem to him.
I enjoyed my visit here,even the attic is full of stuff,is the ladder still there?
 
Thanks very much all :)

SA, there were loads of little things all over the place and it was a shame to see things just thrown on the floor! Could have spent all day there though, so much to see!
 

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