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Established | 2003 |
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Location | Yalding, Kent |
Coordinates | 51°13′18″N 0°25′05″E / 51.2217°N 0.4181°E |
Collection size | 8,400 Teapots |
Website | Official Website |
Teapot Island is a teapot museum in Kent, England. The museum grew from the personal teapot collection of owner Sue Blazye, which started when her grandmother gave her a teapot in 1983, encouraging other family members and friends to do the same. [1] The growth of her collection eventually led to her needing a larger space to house it, and she established Teapot Island in Yalding, in November 2002. [1] The building used for the collection used to be a cafe called the Riverside Diner, which had been in operation since the 1950s. [2] [3] The collection has been valued at £15,000. [4]
Teapot Island was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2004, for being the largest collection of teapots. [1] The museum lost this title in 2011, when it was awarded to a man in China with a collection of 30,000. [5] In 2011, the museum was featured in the book Crap Days Out, in which the authors stated: "It's awful if you don't like teapots. But it's probably all right if you do."
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Established | 2003 |
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Location | Yalding, Kent |
Coordinates | 51°13′18″N 0°25′05″E / 51.2217°N 0.4181°E |
Collection size | 8,400 Teapots |
Website | Official Website |
Teapot Island is a teapot museum in Kent, England. The museum grew from the personal teapot collection of owner Sue Blazye, which started when her grandmother gave her a teapot in 1983, encouraging other family members and friends to do the same. [1] The growth of her collection eventually led to her needing a larger space to house it, and she established Teapot Island in Yalding, in November 2002. [1] The building used for the collection used to be a cafe called the Riverside Diner, which had been in operation since the 1950s. [2] [3] The collection has been valued at £15,000. [4]
Teapot Island was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2004, for being the largest collection of teapots. [1] The museum lost this title in 2011, when it was awarded to a man in China with a collection of 30,000. [5] In 2011, the museum was featured in the book Crap Days Out, in which the authors stated: "It's awful if you don't like teapots. But it's probably all right if you do."