“Rye Pottery” Robin Wilson – Chair of the Rye Potteries Society
This illustrated talk will record the important role which Rye Pottery has played from 1869 to the present day.

It will commence with illustrations of the vernacular pottery made under the Mitchell family’s ownership of the Cadborough works and
later at Belle View on Ferry Road, Rye. A selection of the distinctive “hop ware” from the 1920’s to WWII will be illustrated. The major contributions made by Wally Cole to contemporary pottery in the immediate post war period and its flowering into an international business under Tarquin Cole will be demonstrated with samples.