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Report - - TG Green Pottery, Swadlincote, Derbyshire – September 2020 | Industrial Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - TG Green Pottery, Swadlincote, Derbyshire – September 2020

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MotionlessMike

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T.G.Green & Co Ltd originally operated from the village of Church Gresley, South Derbyshire between 1864 and 2007.
More famous for their blue and white striped 'Cornish Kitchen Ware' produced from the early 1920's (then known as 'E-Blue') the pottery produced many hundreds of patterns from Yellow wares, Victorian transfer prints, colourful hand painted Art Nouveau & vibrant enamelled Art Deco patterns, Wartime utility pottery, avant garde Retro designs and many well-known Brewery wares, employing up to 1,000 local staff at the height of production. Production ceased in 2007 and the factory and land is currently under private ownership.

Was recently sorting out some new pictures and re-editing some old ones for my own blog and thought I’d share them here too. I don’t often post revisit pictures but I make an exception for TG Green – even though it’s several years past its best it’s still probably my favourite derp for various reasons! I think these pictures span a couple of visits but the most recent are from September with @Saltburndan1971

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Mould workshop

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Litho stores

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Tunnel kiln

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Canteen

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Medical room

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And a bit of Cornish Blue to end on

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Thanks for looking​
 

Calamity Jane

i see beauty in the unloved, places & things
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Really like this. I wish I lived closer, Id love to take a look. Maybe one day when this shit has died down and im not vulnerable. Just fab, pots, kilns, nature, decay, nothing not to love :thumb
 

MotionlessMike

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On my to do list too, last time I went for a recce I ended up drinking beer with the chap in the house opp & playing on his dirt jumps in the strip of woodland.
Needless to say I didnt get in then lol,

Really?? I got chased and told to sod off by a guy on a quad from there once for simply looking over the boundary wall! :coat
 

Lavino

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Yeah heard some bad story’s if owner catches you here. Luckily I walked in and out no trouble.
 

rastapasta69

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I nearly got rumbled in there by the owner and his mate about 4 years ago, lucky I spotted them befor they spotted me, through a broken window, across a dodgy slate roof and away!
 

KPUrban_

Surprisingly Unsurprising
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Cracking photos and write up. Great mix of decay, artefacts and other stuff here.
 

m4dd13z666

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Been wandering round the outside of here today, didn't find entry in, and ran out of time a revisit will be planned
 

Louis Balfour

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T G Green were probably most famous for their blue and white striped Cornishware. I stumbled across the factory in the early 1990's when visiting a local car boot sale - very derelict then and it seems so odd that the site was not cleared properly.
 

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