TG Greens Pottery, Swadlincote, Derbys. - October 08

[ThenewMendoza]

From a lead mentioned briefly by Romanian1 along the lines of 'any chance you could have a look if you're in the area', TG Green's pottery, famous for its Cornishware, proved to be one of those sites that despite being closed for a number of years has barely seen the 'hand of chav'.

There is plenty of information about the pottery products on the net so I'll only post this link to a Green family members site, it's an interesting read and an even better explore.

http://www.derek-green.com/tg_green01.htm

Visited with with Smileysal.

Huge thanks to Romanian1 for the lead, I know he's been here since we visited along with a few others.

M

 

[spacepunk]

Liking that 10th photo, don't know why, just do.

 

[skittles]

Great!

Must make way their one day

 

[Goldie87]

Im liking the look of this place, nice one!

 

[Foxylady]

That's fantastic! Love seeing all those pots still left. I don't know what it is about potteries, but most of them seem to remain unvandalised. Excellent stuff!

 

[goodeavens]

Excellent. This was on my to do list. Great pictures

 

[krela]

Nice

Only a mile or so from where I was born.

 

[smileysal]

This is an awesome place, didn't know it was here, and I go to Swadlincote to visit family at that! Cheers to R1 for giving us the lead.

Couldn't believe the amount of pottery of all shapes and sizes still left in here. Cornish ware (glazed and unglazed), containers for stilton cheese to be sold at Fortnum and Mason, dog, cat, gerbil and hamster bowls, hundreds of those, dinner and side plates, cups, everything. It's fantastic.

Definitely want to go here again, and soon.

Excellent pics Mendo.

Sal

ps, all my pics are on Mendo's pc, so will have to try and get those up next time I'm up at his.

 

[johno23]

Quite an interesting looking placeGreat Pics as always.Particularly like those "abandoned"office shots,just looks like they have gone home for the day

 

[Libby]

Great pictures... i especially love the contrast between the delapidated building and immaculate rows and stacks of pots.. are the big round structures in pic 3 kilns?

 

[smileysal]

Yes mate, there were 4 in total in that main building. Loads of moulds plus the pottery all still left in there.

 

[wolfism]

Good find - I like the lighting in pics 8 and 9 - presumably they're tunnel kilns with the pottery cars running along on steel tracks?

 

[thompski]

That looks in real good nick, and another which evaded me in that area when I was looking around with the Pirate a few months back.

 

[ThenewMendoza]

Good find - I like the lighting in pics 8 and 9 - presumably they're tunnel kilns with the pottery cars running along on steel tracks?

They certainly are, this pic shows a larger version. Thanks for looking folks.

M

 

[waynezbitz1]

excellent work, this was mentioned to me in conversation this evening, i must get up and look at some point soon as its not too far from me