Jan & I have had a great day out, visiting a variety of potteries in The Potteries/Stoke, Hanley & possibly Burslem.
Apart from enjoying handling the beautiful china & glassware, we enjoyed travelling around the area - a lesson in social history - there was so much industrial dereliction, cleared sites where potteries once stood & empty commercial premises.
On a brighter note, there were signs of regeneration, but a long way to go.
Portmerion - our first port of call - has taken over Spode & Royal Worcester.
The signposts to Spode" are still in place 3 years after the take-over, guiding you to locked gates.
We went on to Burleigh, which makes very Victorian looking pottery.
It has taken over Leeds ware & Poole pottery, which is now made there, not in Poole.
The first crates of Poole items had just arrived but they had no prices, so dould not yet sell any
Moorcroft - beautiful pottery involving many hours of exacting decoration, all done by hand, hence the hefty price tags.
We crossed the road to Dun.... - cheap & not very nice, typical supermarket goods, then on to Wedgewood, which includes Royal Doulton, Royal Stuart, Waterford & possibly more.
I think that the Wedgewood won my vote overall - beautiful, delicate patterns in subtle colours with a clear, shiny glaze.
My favourite piece was a pair of white candlesticks shaped like the dolphins on the Embankment - amazing.
Wedgewood also won on the café front - great coffee & home made cakes served on lovely china all at very good prices.
We were home by 6.00pm, I seem to have been on the phone & answering e mails ever since, apart from eating mackerel & salad for dinner.
Question Time is on - great team, apart from Anthony Worrall Thompson - not in gaol then?
I'll phone aj in a while, to wake her up to watch the end of the programme - a weekly ritual!
Thanks for the comments - I thought that there was no-one out there!
Apart from enjoying handling the beautiful china & glassware, we enjoyed travelling around the area - a lesson in social history - there was so much industrial dereliction, cleared sites where potteries once stood & empty commercial premises.
On a brighter note, there were signs of regeneration, but a long way to go.
Portmerion - our first port of call - has taken over Spode & Royal Worcester.
The signposts to Spode" are still in place 3 years after the take-over, guiding you to locked gates.
We went on to Burleigh, which makes very Victorian looking pottery.
It has taken over Leeds ware & Poole pottery, which is now made there, not in Poole.
The first crates of Poole items had just arrived but they had no prices, so dould not yet sell any
Moorcroft - beautiful pottery involving many hours of exacting decoration, all done by hand, hence the hefty price tags.
We crossed the road to Dun.... - cheap & not very nice, typical supermarket goods, then on to Wedgewood, which includes Royal Doulton, Royal Stuart, Waterford & possibly more.
I think that the Wedgewood won my vote overall - beautiful, delicate patterns in subtle colours with a clear, shiny glaze.
My favourite piece was a pair of white candlesticks shaped like the dolphins on the Embankment - amazing.
Wedgewood also won on the café front - great coffee & home made cakes served on lovely china all at very good prices.
We were home by 6.00pm, I seem to have been on the phone & answering e mails ever since, apart from eating mackerel & salad for dinner.
Question Time is on - great team, apart from Anthony Worrall Thompson - not in gaol then?
I'll phone aj in a while, to wake her up to watch the end of the programme - a weekly ritual!
Thanks for the comments - I thought that there was no-one out there!
2 comments:
Saw Shirley Williams for about 2mins before I dozed off, didn't recognise AWT, clearly he wasn't wearing an apron or trying to leave with a quantity of cheese hidden about his person. As a preferance Wedgewood wins over Royal Worcester every time.Go Josiah !
Agreed.
QT was actually quite good - shame you slept through it.
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