ceramics
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In February 2025 we wrote about how wonderful it would be to get the bottle kiln outside the Burton fired up again. The kiln was a millennium project, designed to celebrate Bideford’s ceramic heritage, and firings took place regularly till about 2013. Since then, it has lain empty and rather abandoned but now the tradition…
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We are all aware of Bideford’s outstanding pottery heritage, but it is not very evident in the town or celebrated publicly. A Millenium project a generation ago sought to remedy this by constructing a replica bottle kiln in Victoria Park, next to the Burton Art Gallery. Although it was somewhat smaller than the many kilns…
