Pottery Throw down is BACK!

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Hello all GPTD fans the next series has been announced and will start on 8th January at 7:45. It’s a Sunday night and it’s on Channel 4 as usual.

Festive Pottery Throw Down is on Christmas Day too. James Fleet, Jamie Laing, Jenny Eclair and Sunetra Sarker are the celebrities taking part this year.

Yeah, the blokes don't know who he is, do they?

I’m enjoying this judging

I really liked James blue & white

Adding Venitian mask to the list of things I want to try and make.

I really hope, tongue in cheek hope, that for the next series they ban all references to seasides,coasts and fish. And I am saying this with a natural affinity to water being a Pisces person and all.

Yes, seaside ban! Let's have Spaghetti Junction, Watford Gap and the Magic Roundabout (Hemel or Swindon- you choose).

I’m liking the hot air balloons

I hope they don't all go for a glossy finish, won't look good under a light bulb.

Caitlin seems fine now. She and George seem to get on well, I suppose they've a lot in common being medics

OMG that's hideous.

Oh poor George!

Depends is the answer there.
Mass produced ware, most likely it gets loaded to trolleys and taken to the next department.
Bespoke, will be at the makers preference and depend on piece and quantity.

Gladstone is original. It’s a heritage site so still very much as it was at the height of the industry. There are very few modern factories left here (though more than there used to be thanks to the likes of Emma Bridgewater etc!) as most of the industry went to the far east in the late eighties early nineties, but the fancier factories had concrete floors not the old rickety floorboards of Gladstone.

Aww poor George.

Oh George!!

Is Giant's Causeway bloke going to get a Get Out of Jail Free card? Boo.

It’ll be easier to get it wired though George…

George's and Derek's are ugly.
I'm glad George has perked up.

Love Lois' again.

but the fancier factories had concrete floors not the old rickety floorboards of Gladstone.

I'm sure I've seen them use trolleys in Wedgwood when Me and DD visited.

Don't like Lois' bottom part.
Jon's is lovely. James - really nice.

God some of these are hideous.

Dear lord in heaven. Derek's looks like a representation of Hades.

Possibly. Wedgwood is a purpose built mass producing factory so they will use trolleys for speed.
Back in the days of my parents and grandparents, everything was loaded on to trays and carried much like the photo. My dad started out making saucers before he had a change in career, my mum a lithographer. My grandfather was a saggar makers bottom knocker, which always amuses me.

Others went wrong but I feel Helen’s wasn’t very ambitious.

I missed Derek’s as my shopping arrived

Oh, seen