HI SCOTT
MORE THAN PLEASED TO HELP
FIRST TO MY KNOWLEDGE THEY OMLY PRODUCED PORCELAIN SOFT PASTE THEY PRODUCED MAYBE POTTERY SAGGERS TO FIRE THE PORCELAIN BUT NOT ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS,SO LETS CALL IT I PORCELAIN FACTORY.
99.9 % WAS ALL HAND DECORATED BUT I HAVE FOUND 4 PIECES FROM A TEA SET TRANSFER PRINTED
CLAY FROM DEVON AND CORNWALL,LYNN SAND FROM GAINSBOROUGH AND STONE FROM DERBYSHIRE,ONE OF THE COKES ,TALBOT COKE SENT SAMPLES OF CLAY FROM NEWFOUNDLAND BUT I THINK SAMPLES ONLY HE WAS A NAVAL CAPTAIN..
YES THE TURNING CIRCLE AT THE END OF THE CANAL WAS ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE FACTORY THE SITE IS NOW A SCRAP YARD/LORRY GARAGE.WHEN THEY CLEARED THE CANAL TO TURN IT INTO A LEISURE AREA IF COLLECTED MANY SHARDS AND WASTES FROM THE FACTORY
PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL FOR ANY OTHER INFO. MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU ARE IN THE AREA WE COULD MEET
KIND REGARDS
NICHOLAS GENT
So I wanted to see if I could find the romanticised scenes painted by Billingsley from the locations described on the ceramics I saw at the museum.
After much driving around and taking my mother on a 'day out' ( although she found it as much of a puzzle and case as I did) These were the views I found around matlock , pretty much from the same angle as those on the pots .
What is quite odd is that a plastics factory is built pretty much on the site of the old factory...
But, something that distressed me was the view of the hall. I used to play in the brook nearby this hall as a child and have fond memories of a wild area and an area out of bounds where the hall was. Here is the view on the pottery...
These are the best photographs I could take in the light , but this is the same view now.
