Phil Crow Photo

16/05/2026

Something a bit different. Not a bottle oven. This is a glass cone. Used to protect the furnaces in the production of glass. On my list, there’s 4 left in the UK. Part of the ongoing national project

15/05/2026

A filled day taking in and with a lot of fantastic work on show.

13/05/2026

A trip across to the homeland to visit friends and industrial landscapes. Falcon Pottery/JH Weatherby continues to provoke questions around industrial change, continuity, loss, and the practical value of Grade II listing protection.

Here, the layered evolution of the pottery industry is visible within a single landscape.

12/05/2026

Beyond FORTYSEVEN
“an important record of what remains of this amazing industrial heritage in Britain”
Limited numbers still available
Link in bio

11/05/2026

Another fantastic weekend of racing at the Lincoln Grand Prix in its 70th edition. Congrats to the Downing brothers on an incredible and to all the riders on what is probably the UK's toughest course! 🙌

09/05/2026

This afternoon’s Imps parade. Huge crowd, huge congratulations!

08/05/2026

Off down to London to drop off my entry for this year’s RA Summer Exhibition.
I’m shortlisted for the final round of judging 🤞

The theme this year, coordinated by is “Interconnectedness”

30/04/2026

Beyond Fortyseven�A new zine by Phil Crow.
Continuing the story of Stoke-on-Trent’s pottery heritage, this latest publication moves beyond the Potteries to document what remains of the UK’s bottle ovens: fragments of an industry that shaped places, people, and memory.
This limited edition booklet bridges between two projects: the original Fortyseven cataloguing the bottle ovens of the Potteries and his latest research documenting the rest of the UK’s heritage. A limited edition of 150 and signed, order your copy now 👇

https://www.philcrow.com/product/beyond-fortyseven/

24/04/2026

New publication out today! Beyond Fortyseven marks the beginning of a new project documenting the rest of the UK's surviving bottle ovens.
This is an A5 limited edition zine.
Hope you can support this project as there's alot of miles to cover!

https://www.philcrow.com/product/beyond-fortyseven/

25/01/2026