3 more photos from England’s pottery tradition

While I was rambling around my birthplace county, Dorset, with my sister Mary, Alan took a bus up to Oxford. He always enjoys the Pitt Rivers Museum for its eclectic array of Archaeologia. In the Ashmolean Museum he photographed these two images for me. The first features work by Seth Cardew, John Maltby (I really like his sculptures. His jug here is a nice interpretation…

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Stoke-on-Trent

Alan and I stayed with my cousin Gordon and his wife Eileen in Derbyshire for two days. On Monday October 4th, a lovely Autumn day, they drove us through the countryside over to Stoke-on-Trent, about an hour away. This pottery factory town used to be a dreadfully dirty industrial place where all the kilns burned coal. But since 1965 when the clean-air act was enacted…

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