Upchurch Pottery Explained

Upchurch Pottery was a pottery business established in 1909 in Upchurch, Kent, 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 tableware,^[1] named after her birthplace and sold in Heal's, on the Tottenham Court Road, London.^[2] The pottery closed in 1963.^[3]

External links

• Pottery Studio - Upchurch Pottery
• Upchurch Pottery and Tudor Cafe

Notes and References

1. Clifford Yorke, ‘Winnicott, Donald Woods (1896–1971)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2015 accessed 20 Feb 2017
2. Greer, J (2014) Learning from Linked Lives, unpublished thesis, University of Southampton
3. Web site: Upchurch Pottery . studiopottery.com . 13 November 2023 .