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[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]] | '''Abbey Pipes''', homed in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire OL6 6SG, was one of the few small but fine English pipe brands with a long family tradition that managed to survive all the breakdowns, the furious mergers and fusions and the hasty take-overs of the 1970's and early 1980's that extinguished practically everything what was esteemed as "the great English pipe" before. | ||
[[Category: Great Britain]] | |||
Abbey Pipes continued to make mainly classic pipe shapes and - in smaller quantity - very nice freehands with impeccable craftsmanship till the firm found a sudden end in 2005 or 2006. | |||
<span style="color: red">We'd surely appreciate more detailed informations on Abbey Pipes!</span> | |||
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]][[Category: Great Britain]] | |||
Revision as of 22:18, 14 July 2008
Abbey Pipes, homed in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire OL6 6SG, was one of the few small but fine English pipe brands with a long family tradition that managed to survive all the breakdowns, the furious mergers and fusions and the hasty take-overs of the 1970's and early 1980's that extinguished practically everything what was esteemed as "the great English pipe" before.
Abbey Pipes continued to make mainly classic pipe shapes and - in smaller quantity - very nice freehands with impeccable craftsmanship till the firm found a sudden end in 2005 or 2006.
We'd surely appreciate more detailed informations on Abbey Pipes!