pottery
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As part of Heritage Open Days last week, forty-six of us crowded into the Kingsley Room at The Burton to hear Sadie Green give a captivating talk on the links between our ceramic heritage and our maritime past. The link to the sea was crucial, not only for assembling the materials needed to produce pottery,…
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Last Saturday the Mayor of Bideford, Peter Lawrence, unveiled a plaque on the old Bideford Railway Station dedicated to the memory of Elisabeth Deneys, a young Belgian refugee who was killed on the tracks there in 1917. Over a quarter of a million Belgians came to find sanctuary the UK at the start of the…
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We are all aware of Bideford’s outstanding pottery heritage, but it is not very evident in the town or celebrated publicly. A Millenium project a generation ago sought to remedy this by constructing a replica bottle kiln in Victoria Park, next to the Burton Art Gallery. Although it was somewhat smaller than the many kilns…
Bideford and River Torridge Heritage Harbour 