T.G. Green
The pottery made by my old family firm of T.G.Green, from 1864 until the present day, is highly collectable and I decided to include this section in my web site, because I am often asked for information by collectors from all over the world.
In memory of my father, I have provided the history of the company as written by him. I have also included my own recollections of working at the factory
It was always my destiny to join the old family firm and when I left school in 1950 I commenced work at the mill to learn the trade from the bottom. National Service beckoned and after a year working in various departments at the factory, I joined the Navy. This led to two years of an exciting life flying aeroplanes at the end of which, returning to become a potter was rather tame and I only lasted a year before returning to the Fleet Air Arm for good. I must say as I watched the financial problems that absorbed so much of my father’s time from the side lines, I was glad that I had made the difficult decision to leave.
It was impossible to disassociate myself completely from my old family business and when we opened a cafe at Cedar Antiques Centre in Hartley Wintney we decided to call it The Cornishware Cafe. I had over the years collected many examples of the pottery made by the old firm and so decided to form a museum in the cafe. This contains over 400 examples of the incredibly diverse wares made by the factory from the 19th Century to the present day. Together with pottery, interesting archive photographs and other material are on display for the collector or historian to examine. Some of these are shown here.
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Photograph taken in 1887 at the retirement of Thomas Goodwin Green, my Great Grandfather and founder of the company.(Centre Left) |
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