Report - Holdings Country Pottery - Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire - April 2021

[MK83]

History - Holdings Country Pottery was founded circa 1898 on a large clay deposit in Lancashire. It used its own clay, which was dug, blended, washed and processed before being made into passes for the potters wheel. Since the start of the century until its closure little changed in the process and the factory opened its doors to visitors so that they could see the craftsmen creating ‘Waldian Ware’ in the traditional way. The family tradition was started by James Holding in 1842 a mile or so from the present site which was opened around 1900 by James’s sons and grandsons. The Pottery then proceeded to stay within the family as generations passed and took over management of the factory until its closure in the 1990's.

Explore - This place has been done many times over the years but we've always fancied a look. We thought it looked like it would be a chilled out explore. Access was very easy and we had no issues while we were looking round. There's so much random stuff to look at we spent a good hour here. All in all an enjoyable explore.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Jane Doe]

Looks a good wander ...some nice bits left great pix

 

[tumbles]

Nice to see this one is still pretty untrashed. Looks good in the snow

 

[HughieD]

Had this place pinned and almost forgotten about it so thank you for the reminder. Great set of pictures.

 

[MK83]

Looks a good wander ...some nice bits left great pix

Thanks, It's an interesting place. Quite small but loads of history.

 

[MK83]

Nice to see this one is still pretty untrashed. Looks good in the snow

The snow made for some interesting pictures. although it's a weird time of year for snow.

 

[MK83]

Had this place pinned and almost forgotten about it so thank you for the reminder. Great set of pictures.

Thanks. We've had this place pinned for ages as well, glad we finally ticked it off the list.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Do like these old potteries. Some great photos there. Snowy photos always make a different too. Liked this :

 

[MK83]

Do like these old potteries. Some great photos there. Snowy photos always make a different too. Liked this :

Thanks. Haven't shot any abandoned places in the snow before, it did add something to the pics.

 

[stoff urbex]

letter from cilla is tops

 

[MK83]

letter from cilla is tops

Yeah, defo an unexpected thing to find!

 

[Nyrian]

I'm just always happy when we get to a place with little or no graffiti. Feels like a better explore to me at least.

 

[Kipaqra]

Has anyone visited the site since April 2021?

 

[MK83]

Has anyone visited the site since April 2021?

Yes, there was a report on here a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Kipaqra]

We popped up there this week. As soon as we parked up this jobsworth walked over to us stating will call police if we tried to enter the pottery. Maybe next time try a different approach to it.