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sinnerman
17-03-2009, 10:17 PM
Thomas Goodwin Green the founder of the pottery had been a sucessful builder in Austraila but when he heard his childhood sweetheart was prepaired to concider a marrage he retuned to Britain and sucessfully pursued her (good times :) ). Whilst on honeymoon at scarborough in 1864 he met Mr Henry Wileman tyhe owner of a small pottery in the Drebyshire village of Church Gresley, Mr Wileman who was getting long in the tooth was looking to sell his pottery and settle down to a life of retirement ans Thomas decided to use the money from the sale of his Austrailian firm to purchase the pottery,

In 1871 Thomas Green had reached the point where he was no longer satisfied with making rough pottery and wanted to emulate the success of Stoke on Trent potteries in the production of white earthenware. And he set about building a new factory to make new white pottery, the factory that thomas built is still the heart of the buildings which exisit today. The pottery remained a family concern until the 1965 when the firm went into administration, IT was bought out of recvership by a London based finacier in 67 who sold it on the following year to Mr Pat H Freeman who continued to run the business producing its trade mark blue and white cornishware. Freeman managed to reviatalise the firm before selling it on to Cloverleaf in 1987, but cloverleafs time was a period of financial trouble ending with the company's takeover by Mason Cash in 2001 but the pottery still struggled and Mason Cash were forced into recevership in 2004 The pottery was once again saved from the brink of extintion when the company was purchased by the Table Top Company for a breif period the future looked promising with the new owners investing in new modern kilns and laser guided mold making machinery but in July of 2007 the company went into liquidation ending 217 years of potting on the site (bad times :( ).

I always thought that the potteries were a bit of a girly industry, but it seams it must have been a dirty hot dusty and shitty job, but i still think its a bit girly there wasnt the quality porn you find in a foundry. There's an ace american dinner down the road which serves fantastic burgers.



Sick bay
http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/images/28/tggreen/tjgp01.jpg

Accident books nothing to exciting though
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Pattern Store
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The Official ORGAN of the institute of clay technology
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The Drawing office
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1943 was not a good year, Stalingrad, Warsaw uprising, the hamburg firestorm and not many pots sold.
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A little office built around an old bottle kiln
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The Ribbed Jiggler
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The buildings look a like they've been decaying a lot longer than the two years since the pottery closed.
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Muse
17-03-2009, 10:25 PM
I like the background story, it's the personal details that add colour to the history of these places. Nice to see some different views of this place, it's still my favourite explore :) Please tell me, it's not really called a 'ribbed jiggler' is it?:ohmy:lol:

sinnerman
17-03-2009, 10:34 PM
Please tell me, it's not really called a 'ribbed jiggler' is it?:ohmy:lol:

It most certainly is, it was a very suggestive place with all the vibrator's, Ribbed jigglers and Felching clocks. and that's ignoring the large and small rubber pussy molds

sinnerman
17-03-2009, 10:48 PM
who can say what ever they were they weren't there anymore just a sign

converse1
17-03-2009, 11:59 PM
Lovley capture there Sinnerman. :thumb great bottle shot.