Description: Purchased by the Green family in the 1860s and known ever since as T G Green of Church Gresley. The pottery has had a checkered history, surviving fires, wars and near failure. By the 1920s the pottery employed around 700 people, and unlike any other pottery of that period was enitirely self sufficient, grinding their own materials, making their own frits, glazes, colour grinding and mixing. Fuel, stilts, spurs and even the saggar clay, which was drawn from local seams. (There is a full and interesting history of the pottery at http://www.zyworld.com/tggreen/Pottery%20History.htm)