Each of these took a room in the quarter before they had very much to put in it. None of them is still in the room they started in.
Two market days a month, and a van they were half living out of between them.
Took a half-stall in the covered market
Moved to a full stall the following season
Now cooks out of the shared kitchen on the north range
Trades six dayswhere it was two
A letterpress that needed a floor strong enough to hold it and a landlord who understood why.
Second floor of the grain store, taken for the beams
Goods lift opening widened to get the platen in
Runs two classes a month out of the same room
Two presseswhere there was one
Three makers sharing one kiln and disagreeing about firing times.
Started on a shared bench in the print studio
Took a studio of their own for the three-phase power
Fires work for four other makers in the quarter
Four makersshare the kiln
Every one of these goes to the piece itself rather than to us summarising it. We have kept the ones that got it wrong as well.
Finished work, with the bench it came off and the person who was standing at it.
A few of the posts worth keeping. Tap one to see it where it was posted.
The quarter keeps its own record, largely because nobody else was going to. Every tenancy, every change of use and every roof that came off is written down in the office above the market, along with a good deal that is only interesting to us.
What is worth reading has been put on the blog. What is not has been left where it is, and you are welcome to come and look at it.
Of the buildings, and of people only where the people have said yes.
An hour, most mornings, and better than any of the photographs.
What is here, who runs it, and what the building was before. No figures we cannot stand up.