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Explore #160: Poterie DGM, aka Faiencerie S/Poterie S, France – February 2016

August 10, 2016

Explore #7 of ‘The Smell of Cheap Cologne Tour’ The final explore of our long weekend in Germany, Belgium and France was this long abandoned pottery, for which access was probably more memorable than the actual explore! History This region in the Northeast of France is well known for its ceramics. However this small pottery closed down many years ago when advances in technology made its limited facilities uncompetitive and its owner fled to Montenegro owing millions of Francs to…

Explore #137: TG Green’s Pottery, Derbyshire – July 2015

First stop on a mini UK road trip was this nicely decaying semi-abandoned pottery factory… History (amended and abridged from here) The factory as it is today began life in 1864 following a chance meeting in Scarborough between Thomas Goodwin Green (who was on his honeymoon!) and Henry Wileman who owned a small pottery in Church Gresley, near Swadlincote. Wileman was intending on selling the pottery which had been built in 1790 and Green, who had made a lot of…