Aldermaston Pottery was a pottery

Pottery

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...

 located in the Berkshire

Berkshire

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 village of Aldermaston

Aldermaston

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. It was founded in 1955 by Alan Caiger-Smith

Alan Caiger-Smith

Alan Caiger-Smith MBE is a British studio potter and writer on pottery.- Life and work :He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and read history at King's College, Cambridge...

 and was known for its tin-glaze pottery and particularly its lustre ware. Alan Caiger-Smith worked with almost sixty assistants over a period of forty years at the Pottery; the first, Geoffrey Eastop, joined him in 1956, a year after the pottery started.

In 1965, the pottery was the subject of a television documentary

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 produced by Michael Darlow

Michael Darlow

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The pottery scaled back its production in June 1993 when Caiger-Smith partially retired and stopped hiring assistants. It continued to operated commercially until it was sold in 2006, and the building has now been converted into a private dwelling.

Potters

• Alan Caiger-Smith
  Alan Caiger-Smith
  Alan Caiger-Smith MBE is a British studio potter and writer on pottery.- Life and work :He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and read history at King's College, Cambridge...
  
  
• Geoffrey Eastop
  Geoffrey Eastop
  Geoffrey Eastop is an English potter.Eastop was born in London, where he studied at Goldsmiths' College. He also studied at the Academie Ranson, Paris....
  
  
• Julian Bellmont
• Andrew Hazelden
• Edgar Campden
• Mohamed Hamid
• Laurence McGowan
• Simon Rich
• Myra McDonnell
• Harriet Coleridge