T.G. Greens Pottery
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T.G. Greens was founded in 1864 by Thomas Goodwin Green after buying a small pottery from a Mr Wileman. Which dated back to 1790 in the town of Church Gresley, Derbyshire.
Originally the site was quite small but in 1871 Thomas Green expanded the site and continued to do so over the years resulting in it covering 7 acres.
The company is famous for producing Cornish pottery (Cornishware) mainly its range of blue and white striped pottery. Which has been produced since the 1920s. Some of which is now extremely rare and collectible.
The company successfully continued producing pottery until 1987. When the company was sold to Clover Leaf. They were taken over in 2001 by Mason Cash. Who made a valiant attempt to continue until they them selves went into voluntary liquidation in 2004.
Since 2004 the 7 acre site has laid derelict and virtually intact. In fact it is probably the most complete pottery in the country thats derelict.
Having seen previous reports by other explorers on this place. Jaff and myself decided it was about time we saw the pottery for ourselves.
Inside is a treasure trove. Certain sections of the pottery are that intact you would believe that people still worked there.
Casts are littered all across the site as well as finished pottery that never made it to the retailers. The amount is staggering and really does need seeing in person to appreciate.
Every room you enter has even more interesting finds than the last and makes for a truly superb explore. Aside from the pottery their is a large amount of machinery still in situ. Some of the machine shops are literally packed to the roof with randoms pieces of equipment.
With so many things to see it does at times become overwhelming and you really dont know where to begin to start taking photographs.
Along with the largest amounts of casts and pottery we have ever seen we did find some even more spectacular finds. Boxes upon boxes of original Copperplate invoices. Which are extremely rare to find even more raree given that the site is wide open.
A very cool site with an impressive history and tons of artifacts still left in situ and probably the most complete pottery in the country in terms of abandonment.
