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KingElvis
16-12-2008, 09:14 AM
This is Greens Pottery in Staffordshire, a quality explore with just so much left to see. The plant closed in 2005 but judging by some of the factory, it could've been yesterday.

The place is a rabbit warren of rooms, workshops, ancient wooden mezz floors and kilns. Everywhere you look is a stack of product going green with time. My favourite bit had to be the beautiful bottle kilns which have been built into the factory over the years. Most of the offices on the production floor look so good you would think it's lunch break and the workers will be back soon. The outside is quite hard to capture as it's a bit of a dump LOL

Overall a great place, just be careful of the CCTV if you go.

Big thanks to MD :thumb


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Thanks for looking :thumb

boxfrenzy
16-12-2008, 09:19 AM
ALways l iked the look of this, and excellent pictures too. I also like the watermark! :thumb

KingElvis
16-12-2008, 09:23 AM
ALways l iked the look of this, and excellent pictures too. I also like the watermark! :thumb

Thanks mate, someone on another "forum" had nicked my photos so I have put in a small watermark LOL :thumb Damn photo pikeys.

converse1
16-12-2008, 09:28 AM
Wow! that looks a beautiful place mate. Nice work :thumb

sqwasher
16-12-2008, 09:40 AM
Yep great photos of what looks like a really history filled site-amazing that so much is left & SO intact! Good to see some distance shots too. :thumb

ERNIE99_UK
16-12-2008, 11:38 AM
I like the bottle kilns in the latter pictures. They're 19th century or earlier.

Amazing so much is left, theres a lot of the moulds left by the looks.

gibbo
16-12-2008, 11:39 AM
This is a great site, I loved the bottle kilns. Some were knee deep full of various junk and rubbish, well worth a rummage.

Just be careful as one part is live!

coops
16-12-2008, 12:17 PM
Great pics mate

Goldie87
16-12-2008, 04:46 PM
Nice work mate, good to see the place getting explored by more people. Its a fantastic place

mortaldecay
16-12-2008, 08:37 PM
It's a shame to see some damage has been inflicted on the place. I really want to visit this site again, and maybe I'll bump into you again Matt ;)

Great shots Elvis.

skin
17-12-2008, 12:46 AM
This place looks great. Love these places with loads of things left lying around, and this place looks big too.