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Jo Ahern celebrates the ongoing appeal of this classic crockery.

 

NOTHING says “a cup of tea and a scone” quite like Cornishware pottery, known and loved for its fresh, farmhouse appeal and timeless, classic design.

The pottery site which produced this iconic crockery was actually in Church Gresley in Derbyshire, around 300 miles away from the Cornish coast, and it is said that the business, which became T.G. Green & Co., had its origins in a chance meeting while a certain Mr Green was on honeymoon in Scarborough!

Thomas Goodwin Green, born in Lincolnshire in 1822, did really rather well for himself in Australia after leaving his home in England due to some troubles with matters of the heart.

Twenty years after he left, repeated requests to come home from his one-time love, Mary Tenniel, the sister of the “Punch” and “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” illustrator, John Tenniel, saw Green come back to England and – finally – marry Mary.