T.G. Green
Sale of Family and Museum Pieces.
Saturday 7th November at 11am at 63 High Street,Hartley Wintey, Hampshire RG27 8HL.
Sunday 8th November Report & Future Opening Plans.
A big thank you to all the people who joined us in Hartley Wintney yesterday - old friends, new friends and fellow collectors. Our under lying love and enthusiasm for for all things T.G.Green was the link for a great get together.
Over 280 pieces of pottery sailed out of the door, that's a lot of wrapping and packing, so a big thank you to Juliet, Pippa and Emily of the Green clan, who manned the check out desk. Also our thanks to my mother in law, Margaret who hand washed and dried every piece beforehand.
Our plan is to open the shop every Friday, Saturday and Sunday up until Christmas, or as long as stocks last. There is still plenty of Blue and White Cornish to go around but we are running short of Domino and Cornish Gold and Yellow. We have sold out of Oakville, Tally-Ho, Seagull, all our bulb bowls, Pharos and Chatsworth but can still offer a good selection of Grassmere, Streamline, Crocus, Over the Hill and Polo plus some early flow blue and other unusual early pieces.
If you are too far to visit, do give us a call or email and now that the rush is over we will happily photograph anything that you may be interested in and then post it to you.
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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