Marley Tiles Factory

History

The Marley Tile Factory was built and started production in the 1950s t
at Delamere near Chester.
Three production lines, one automatic, two semiautomatic lines were used only intermittently utilising the machine crew operating one of the other lines, capacity was operating at 12 million plain plus 9 million large tiles or 16 million large tiles. If the third line was fully operated on a single shift the capacity would be increased by 12 million plain tiles. Profiles produced were the plain, feature, Ludlow Major, Modern and Wessex tiles.
The factory closed in 2007.Considering it has been shut four years; it is still in reasonably good condition. Although, it appears some demolition has taken place, and the local hooligans have slowly started going in but with it being out the way its relatively safe.

Explore

Visited July 2010

The site is huge and has an old quarry and lake behind the buildings which is used for fishing but don’t go swimming because it’s extremely deep and dangerous. There’s no security on site when We visited so it was a relaxing Explore. The rooms are massive and there are lots of little relics to see, no big machinery though all that’s been taken away. The office block is monotonous nothing really to see in there, the taps in the kitchen are working though if you need to freshen up. It was that quiet We had a picnic in one of the admin rooms. It’s a big place to see everything you’ll probably need to be there around four hours so be prepared.