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Winchcombe Pottery
Winchcombe Pottery, near Winchcombe in Tewkesbury Borough, North Gloucestershire, is an England, English craft pottery founded in 1926. Early history There has been a pottery, with a Bottle oven, Bottle kiln, on the current site in Greet since at least 1800, north of Winchcombe. Known as Greet Potteries under the management of R A Beckett (who died in 1913), it produced a range of farmhouse ware, advertised as ''"Garden, Sea-Cale, Rhubarb, & Chimney Pots"''. Closed in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, it did not restart again after the war. Bernard Leach is credited with restarting craftsman pottery in Britain in 1920. One of his early students was Michael Cardew who, at 25, was looking for a suitable site for his own pottery and in 1926 rented the old pottery buildings. Influencing his choice were the availability of local clay and the original Kiln#Types of kiln, bottle kiln. Cardew recruited two locals, critically Elijah Comfort, aged 63 and who had worked before in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchcombe Pottery - Geograph
Winchcombe () is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucestershire, England, it is 6 miles north-east of Cheltenham. The population was recorded as 4,538 in the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census and estimated at 5,347 in 2019. The town is located in the Cotswolds and has many features and buildings dating back to medieval times. History The Belas Knap Neolithic long barrow on Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire, Cleeve Hill above Winchcombe, dates from about 3000 BCE. In Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon times, Winchcombe was a major community in Mercia, favoured by King Coenwulf of Mercia, the others being Lichfield and Tamworth, Staffordshire, Tamworth. In the 11th century, the town was briefly the county town of Winchcombeshire. The Anglo-Saxon St Kenelm, said to be a son of Coenwulf, is believed to be buried here. During the Anarchy of the 12th century, a motte-and-bailey castle was built in the early 1140s for Empress Matilda, by Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
