Upchurch Pottery was a
pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and ...
business established in 1909 in
Upchurch
Upchurch is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. It is situated just off the A2 road, between Rainham and Sittingbourne.
History
Upchurch lay on a pre-Roman trackway; the many linking roads are the result of Ro ...
,
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, by the Wakely brothers.
Most of the clay used in production was taken from what is now called Springbank Farm in Poot Lane Upchurch.
In the mid-1930s it was bought by
Alice Buxton Winnicott and here she manufactured her
Claverdon
Claverdon is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, about west of the county town of Warwick. Claverdon's toponym comes from the Old English for "clover hill". The hill is near the centre of th ...
tableware.
[Clifford Yorke, ‘Winnicott, Donald Woods (1896–1971)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 201]
accessed 20 Feb 2017
/ref> named after her birthplace and sold in Heals, on the Tottenham Court Road, London.[Greer, J (2014) Learning from Linked Lives, unpublished thesis, ]University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
References
External links
Pottery Studio - Upchurch PotteryUpchurch Pottery and Tudor Cafe
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Ceramics manufacturers of England