Tam Ward
Tam Ward recounts his introduction into collecting Scottish Pottery
Victoria Victorian Sailor Jug
SPS member, Michael Gilles, sent a question to the Society via our Facebook page regarding a pair of jugs he owns, depicting (what we now know) a Victorian British Navy sailor. Another jug, more than likely produced by Bo’ness, carries the same image, but is unmarked. The Victoria pottery jug, made in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, is …
Bulletin 73
Bulletin 73 is now published in the member’s section for download. The SPS would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very safe and Happy Christmas, with best wishes for 2021.
SPHR Guidelines for Authors – Submissions Open
SPHR: Guidelines for Contributors 2020/21 Submission Submission deadline: 14 January 2021 Please send your article in digital form to Heather Jack. Include with your paper: · The illustrations, supplied as high resolution .tif or .jpg files. These files should have a descriptive name and be numbered in the order they appear in the …
SPS Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The Scottish Pottery Society will hold it’s Annual General Meeting at 10.30am on Tuesday 24th November 2020Branch members will receive an email with instructions on how to join the Zoom meeting. We hope to see you then.
Glasgow Great Pottery Trail by Ruth Impey
SPS Member, Ruth Impey, has produced an impressive online tour of Glasgow’s export potteries. The tour can be conducted as a cycling or walking route through Glasgow, exploring the locations and wares of Scotland’s historical pottery export trade, and where these products were made. It also includes interviews with Scottish pottery workers and historians on …
SPS Members Come Online
The Society wishes to welcome our members to the new SPS website. Login details are being issued to all current members, who are being encouraged to proof read, fact check and provide further details to pages where they see omissions or inaccuracies. Comment sections are at the bottom of each page, and we’re enormously grateful …
Free Access to Historical SPHRs
UPDATE 27th May: ALL Free SPHRs are now uploaded The Scottish Pottery Society today made Scottish Pottery Historical Review publications available free to the public on our website:https://www.scottishpotterysociety.org.uk/sphr/freesphrs/ SPHRs prior to the year 2000 will be available to freely access on our website. More will be uploaded over the following weeks. Care should be taken …