Visited at night at first, but realised I had to go back in the day to get it all in.
From a 1913 letterhead, here's what the site looked like, although I think there's a bit of 'arstist's impression' going on here...
and this is what it looks like nowadays, I've sketched on the bits I think are missing...
A view of the bottle kiln from the yard...
Going inside, there's a great mix of new and old, you can really get a feel for the tight working conditions here...
Modern kiln...
Bottle Kiln...
This machine was full of wooden things, maybe to remove imperfections from fired goods?...
In the offices, old paperwork...
Various rooms...
Looking up at the bottle kiln...
Like a lot of the potteries there's mountains of finished and part-finished stock around...
A mould for a tankard...
and finally, a few snippets from an old Evening Sentinel...
From a 1913 letterhead, here's what the site looked like, although I think there's a bit of 'arstist's impression' going on here...
and this is what it looks like nowadays, I've sketched on the bits I think are missing...
A view of the bottle kiln from the yard...
Going inside, there's a great mix of new and old, you can really get a feel for the tight working conditions here...
Modern kiln...
Bottle Kiln...
This machine was full of wooden things, maybe to remove imperfections from fired goods?...
In the offices, old paperwork...
Various rooms...
Looking up at the bottle kiln...
Like a lot of the potteries there's mountains of finished and part-finished stock around...
A mould for a tankard...
and finally, a few snippets from an old Evening Sentinel...