After a couple of weeks of cleaning, sealing the floor, fitting work benches, making new benches from recycled and reclaimed materials, moving tools and equipment, fitting new lights and many other tasks, the new workshop is not yet finished but is open for business. Here are some snaps of the story so far.

It’s an historic building too. The row of workshops were clay cellars in the late 18th and early 19th Century and were part of the local china and ball clay industry. The industrialist James Templer built the adjacent canal, and 1000 barges a year passed by on their way to Newton Abbot, Teignmouth and then on to export markets around the world. For more see:http://www.stovercanal.co.uk/history.htm and http://www.stovercanal.co.uk/history.htm . Since then it’s been a truck garage, a scrap aluminium smelting shed and a motorcycle workshop.

Where is it?

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