The History
Price's National Teapots (also known as Top Bridge Works) has been occupied by Price Brothers since the 1890s, becoming Price & Kensington after an amalgamation in 1962. Along with the Spode factory, the Top Bridge Works is the earliest surviving example of a fire proof pottery works. The main warehouse along the roadside and the one remaining bottle kiln are both listed buildings. History is slightly sketchy and I'm unsure when Price and Kensington left the top bridge works, but today a sizeable chunk of the buildings are used by a mix of small businesses such as a gym, carwash and an 'Aladdin's Cave' type shop.
The Explore
Upon entering, my first reaction was 'this is shit' as the first part of the ground floor has been used as a stores by some of the businesses and was full of pigeon poo covered furniture and lawnmowers. However after some extensive monkey-business I made it into the rest of the works and I ended up thoroughly enjoying this one.
The listed warehouse from the roadside
The first building has obviously suffered a fire at some point and the roof has been partially demolished
Spain '82 world cup transfers on the ground floor amongst the crap furniture store
And upwards. Kind of reminded me of Weatherby's from the upper floors (only with more roof tiles)
Tunnel kiln
And plenty of teapots!
A small top floor office with a wall chart displaying 'Gross Clay' and 'Gross Glost'
Also in here were several boxes of Royal Doulton plates
Yorkshire Tea
A little supply cupboard on the wall of a very overgrown room, looked like it hadn't been used since the 70s
A receipt book from 1973 for the coloured dyes
And lastly a mould store which involved an incredibly sketchy climb over a collapsed floor using some metal pipes sticking out of the wall
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Thanks for looking
Price's National Teapots (also known as Top Bridge Works) has been occupied by Price Brothers since the 1890s, becoming Price & Kensington after an amalgamation in 1962. Along with the Spode factory, the Top Bridge Works is the earliest surviving example of a fire proof pottery works. The main warehouse along the roadside and the one remaining bottle kiln are both listed buildings. History is slightly sketchy and I'm unsure when Price and Kensington left the top bridge works, but today a sizeable chunk of the buildings are used by a mix of small businesses such as a gym, carwash and an 'Aladdin's Cave' type shop.
The Explore
Upon entering, my first reaction was 'this is shit' as the first part of the ground floor has been used as a stores by some of the businesses and was full of pigeon poo covered furniture and lawnmowers. However after some extensive monkey-business I made it into the rest of the works and I ended up thoroughly enjoying this one.
The listed warehouse from the roadside
The first building has obviously suffered a fire at some point and the roof has been partially demolished
Spain '82 world cup transfers on the ground floor amongst the crap furniture store
And upwards. Kind of reminded me of Weatherby's from the upper floors (only with more roof tiles)
Tunnel kiln
And plenty of teapots!
A small top floor office with a wall chart displaying 'Gross Clay' and 'Gross Glost'
Also in here were several boxes of Royal Doulton plates
Yorkshire Tea
A little supply cupboard on the wall of a very overgrown room, looked like it hadn't been used since the 70s
A receipt book from 1973 for the coloured dyes
And lastly a mould store which involved an incredibly sketchy climb over a collapsed floor using some metal pipes sticking out of the wall
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Thanks for looking
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