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June 8June 8-8---14,14, 2009 WIS # 54WIS 54

Wedgwood Museum Barlaston, England

Celebrating 250 Years At , The 200th Birthday Of Charles Darwin And The New Wedgwood Museum

2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of The Wedgwood Company.

2009 also marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, ‘On The Origin Of Species’. The great 19th Century naturalist had many links with , the Wedgwood Family, and there are many events being held there this year.

The Wedgwood International Seminar is proud to hold it’s 54th Annual Seminar at the New Wedgwood Museum this year and would like to acknowledge the time and efforts put forth on our behalf by the Wedgwood Museum staff and in particular Mrs. Lynn Miller. WIS PROGRAM - WIS #54, June 8-14 - England *

Monday - June 8, 2009 9:00 AM Bus Departs London Hotel To Moat House Hotel Stoke-On-Trent / Lunch On Your Own 3:00 PM Registration 3:00 PM, Moat House Hotel 5:30 PM Bus To Wedgwood Museum 6:00 PM President’s Reception @Wedgwood Museum-Meet Senior Members of the Company Including Museum Trustees, Museum Staff, Volunteers 7:00 PM Dinner & After Dinner Announcements Tuesday - June 9, 2009 8:45 AM Welcome: Earl Buckman, WIS President, George Stonier, President of the Museum, Gaye Blake Roberts, Museum Director 9:30 AM Kathy Niblet, Formerly of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery “Studio Potters” 10:15 AM Lord Queesnberry “Design & Design Philosophy” 11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:30 AM David Puxley “ On Being A Studio Potter At Wedgwood” 12:15 PM Alan Erickson “Unveiling Of New WIS Website” & WIS Members Open Forum 1:00 PM Lunch @ Wedgwood & Group Photo 2:15 PM Members Visit The Wedgwood Museum / Board Meeting 4:15 PM Visit St Peter ad Vincula “Josiah’s Grave” Then Bus Back To Hotel 6:00 PM Dinner @ the Moat House 7:00 PM Ray Johnson & Films Of The Potteries (Moat House Hotel) Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:00 AM Gaye Blake Roberts “Wedgwood 250th Anniversary Celebrations & 200th Anniversary of Darwin” followed by Sharon Gater “Charles Darwin” 10:00 AM Coffee Break 10:30 AM Jenny Uglow “” 11:15 AM Board Bus To Nottingham Castle Museum - Lunch @ Nottingham Castle Museum & Welcome To The Nottingham Castle Museum by Pamela Woods: The afternoon will be spent at Nottingham Castle Museum 5:00 PM Bus To Moat House Hotel 6:30 PM Dinner at Local Pub (TBD) Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:00 AM Kevin Salt “18th Century Wedgwood ” 9:45AM Julie McKeown “Introductory talk on Rode Hall & The Wedgwood Collection” 10:30 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM Depart For Astbury Church & Rode Hall - Lunch Will Be At Rode Hall, and The afternoon Will Be Spent At Rode Hall Viewing The Collection, Home & It’s Gardens 4:30 PM Bus To Moat House Hotel 6:00 PM Skinner’s Cocktail Reception (Moat House—) 7:00 PM Dinner @ The Moat House Friday, June 12, 2009 9:00 AM Bus Departs For Visit To The Potteries Museum 11:00 AM Bus Departs To Wedgwood Museum 11:45 AM Lunch @ Wedgwood 12:00 PM Alan Wedgwood, Direct descendent of “My Ancestors” 1:45 PM Free Time At Wedgwood Museum & Wedgwood Visitor’s Center 3:30 PM Closing Remarks From The Wedgwood Museum / Visit The Seconds Shop If Open Or & Gardens On Return Trip To The Moat House 6:00 PM Dinner & General Meeting (Moat House) Saturday - June 13, 2009 - 9:00 AM Bus Departs For Lady Lever Gallery & Liverpool (Lunch @ Lady Lever) 4:00 PM Bus Returns to Moat House 6:00 PM Annual Banquet @ Wedgwood Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:00 AM Bus Departs - Return To London

*Schedule is tentative.

June is always a busy month in England, particularly in London. Some of the “antiques” fairs taking place near our Seminar visit are listed below to help you in planning your trip.

(On Your Own - These are in addition to the scheduled seminar and may require entrance fees)

Fairs, etc United Kingdom - June, 2009

OLYMPIA SUMMER ANTIQUES FAIR - Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, London SW5 9TA June 5-14 - 11 AM - 7 PM £14 At Door, £10 In Advance (Preview June 4 - £80 )

ARTHUR SWALLOW FAIR, Swinderby - giant flea market - about 2 hours from London via trains from King’s Cross Station, courtesy bus meets London trains outside Newark Northgate Station to take you to the fair nearby at Swinderby, Tuesday & Wednesday, June 2&3; opens at 7AM on Tuesday (Entry £15), opens at 8 AM on Wednesday (Entry £2.50)

SELLING EXHIBITION - “8 Days in June” June 2-8 & June 5-6 10 AM - 6 PM - 4 Dealers On Kensington Church Street

DMG ANTIQUES FAIR, NEWARK ANTIQUES FAIR - giant flea market - about 2 hours from London via train from King’s Cross Station; courtesy bus meet London trains outside Newark Northgate Station to take you to the fair nearby At Newark & Notts Showground; Thursday & Friday, June 4 & 5; opens 9 AM (Entry on Thursday £20; Friday £5)

PORTOBELLO MARKET - June 6 (Saturdays)

LONDON COIN FAIR - June 6 - 9:30 AM - Holiday Inn - Bloomsbury

PRESTIGE CERAMICS FAIR - June 6 11 AM - 5 PM - Kensington Town Hall, London

ADAMS FAIRS - June 7, Chelsea Town Hall, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, 11 AM

COVENT GARDEN - June 7, Centre Jubilee hall, (lower end merchandise) 6 AM

RUSSIAN ART FAIR - June 6-8 - Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Knightsbridge, London 10 AM (Noon on 6th)

CHELSEA TOWN HALL - VINTAGE CLOTHING & MID 20TH CENTURY “STUFF” - June 7 11 AM

GROSVERNOR HOUSE ANTIQUES FAIR - June 11-14; LeMeridien Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London 11 AM

BOWMAN ANTIQUES FAIR - June 12 & 13, Bingley Hall County Showground, Weston Road, , Staffordshire; 10 AM

Covent Garden - June 14, Centre Jubilee Hall, (Lower end merchandise) 6 AM

ADAMS ANTIQUES FAIRS - June 14, Royal Horticultural Hall, Lindley Hall, Elverton St. Vincent Square, Victoria London 10 AM

• Dates, Time, & Events Not Guaranteed • Entrance Fees May Apply To The Above Venues

Special Thanks To Bob Reichner & Earl Buckman For Providing Us This Information

Wedgwood International Seminar

INCORPORATED

Among our distinguished speakers at the 2009 Seminar are the following:

Jenny Uglow - Grew up in Cumbria, and worked in publishing since leaving Oxford. She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the , and has written widely on 18th and 19th cen- tury literary and culture. The latest of her acclaimed works is 'The Lunar Men - The Friends Who Made the Future'. She will be speaking on Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin), and other associ- ated friends of the great Josiah.

Kathy Niblett - Former senior curatorial member of staff at the world famous Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (Staffordshire) - Kathy will be talking about studio potters past and present. Kathy is well known to former WIS participants as a guest lecturer.

David Puxley - The first ever Wedgwood resident studio potter in the 1960s - David will talk on his reminiscences of his time at Wedgwood, and his later experiences as a renowned studio potter.

Lord Queensberry - For the last 5 decades Lord Queensberry has reigned supreme in the design world, and formed, with Martin Hunt, the world-famous Queensberry Hunt Design Association. Lord Queensberry will give his own individual thoughts on past and present design, and design philosophy.

Alan Wedgwood - Direct descendent of the great Josiah Wedgwood, Alan (as a toddler) laid the foundation stone for the new Barlaston factory in 1936, 'assisted' by Production Director Norman Wil- son. Alan will talk on 'his family'.

Julie McKeown - Well known lecturer and author, Julie will be talking on the history of 'Rode Hall' - and its long-lasting associations with the Wedgwood family (including Richard Wedgwood, father-in-law of Josiah I), and the artist Walter Crane. This precedes our trip to Rode Hall to see the house, its great ceramics collection, and beautiful gardens.

Sharon Gater - Senior curatorial member of the Wedgwood Museum Trusts staff, expert on 19th and 20th century Wedgwood production, and pioneering researcher into the life and achievements of Charles Darwin. She is to give a paper on the third generation of the Darwin / Wedgwood family - the re- nowned Charles Darwin himself, whose 200th anniversary of his birth we are also celebrating in 2009. Sharon is one of our favorite speakers and has been dubbed one of the “Three Graces of Barlaston”!

Kevin Salt - Archivist at the Wedgwood Museum Trust, and author on the history of 'Etruria' - will talk on Richard Wedgwood, Wedgwood's father-in-law, and also on 18th century 'Wedgwood's Burslem'.

Ray Johnson - Senior academic lecturer at will provide a commentary and show early 20th century films of "The Potteries”. Ray has dedicated several decades of his life to the location and restoration of Potteries' archive film - the evening will include the famous, and often hilarious, 1930 week-long pageant which was held in to celebrate the bicentenary of Wedgwood's birth in 1730.

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Wedgwood Museum

The Potteries has welcomed a new landmark building and visitor attraction to Stoke-on-Trent, The Wedgwood Museum, at Barlaston. Opened in October, 2008, the £10 Million Museum houses the majority of the Wedgwood ceramic archive and art collection to create a new museum of International significance. Not since 1906 has so much of the archive been out of storage and on view to tourist, scholars, and visitors from around the world. Here you’ll find a striking new state-of-the-art building. After stepping through the glass doors, you will be treated to an incredible eye-catching display of one of the world’s finest collections of Wedgwood. Even for non-connoisseurs, the sight of so much world class ware in one location is likely to leave a lasting impression.

Nottingham Castle Museum

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery is located in a magnificent 17th Century ducal mansion built on the site of an original medieval castle with spectacular views across the city. This is a vibrant museum and art gallery housing collections of silver, glass, armory, and . paintings, plus fifteen centuries of Nottingham history. One of the museum’s star attractions is the Felix Joseph collection of 18th Century Wedgwood Jasperware, left to the museum in 1892 and is one of the few Victorian assemblages of 18th Century Wedgwood Jasperware in the world intact today. Joseph’s collection consists of over 1400 pieces

Church of St Peter ad Vincula Josiah Wedgwood was buried on January 6, 1795; his widow Sarah Wedgwood, twenty years later on January 20, 1815. They were both buried here in the ancient Saxon Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Stoke. The well-known Flaxman memorial tablet to Josiah was placed in the chancel of the church in 1802, and was followed by a second memorial to Sarah. The Saxon Church was demolished about 1830 and was rebuilt further to the North of the church precinct where the two memorial tablets were transferred. The Lady Lever Art Gallery The Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight was founded by William Hesketh . Lever (1851-1925) and is dedicated to the memory of his wife Elizabeth. Lever acquired many of the pieces in the gallery through the bulk purchase of others’ collections. The gallery contains the best of his personal art collection including one of the world’s great Wedgwood collections. The core of his Wedgwood material was originally assembled in the middle of the 19th Century by Dudley Coutts Marjori- banks, the first Lord Tweedmouth (1820-1894) and purchased in its entirety by Lever in 1905 for £17,200. The Tweedmouth collection includes major pieces bought from the naturalist Charles Darwin, whose mother Susannah was a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood himself. He then used the specialist dealer Frederick Rathbone to expand the collection further. Lever was an advocate for the superiority of British art. He recognized the 18th Century as the peak of refinement in English furniture, and saw Wedgwood as the equivalent in ceramics. Rode Hall Rode Hall is a fine early 18th Century country house set in a Repton landscape. It has been the home of the Wilbraham family since 1669, and the extensive grounds include a woodland garden, a formal garden designed by Nesfield in 1860, and a large walled kitchen garden. Rode Hall gardens were created by three notable landscape designers. Humphrey Repton drew up the plans for the landscape and Rode Pool in 1790. Between 1800 and 1810 John Web, a locally-based landscapist, constructed the Pool, an artificial lake of approximately 40 acres. At the same time he created the terraced rock garden and grotto. This area is covered in snowdrops in February and colours continues with the flowering of many species and hybrid rhododendron and azaleas. In 1860 William Nesfield designed the formal garden which today remains much as he planned. The two acre, walled kitchen garden, which dates from 1750, is now restored and in full working order producing a wide variety of flowers, vegetables, and fruit. Rode Hall is also home to an important collection of English Porcelain and pottery amassed by successive generations of the Wilbraham family since the mid-eighteen century. Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in the Cultural Quarter of the City Centre houses the world’s finest and largest selection of Staffordshire ceramics including the national collection of Minton ceramics. Over 5,000 pieces are on display in the galleries. These explain the history of the potter industry, both by manufacture and design. Explore the wildlife, landscape, and geology of the Potteries.

Trentham Estate & Gardens Located at the head of the mile long lake and hanging woods are one of the most stunning gardens in Europe. Leading designer have created stunning new plantings for interest throughout the season but there is much more to see and do including The Themed Show Gardens; Britain’s only Barefoot Walk; The ‘Hide and Speak’ Hedge Maze and much more. This will be an optional tour in the event that the Grade II (Seconds) shop is still closed upon our visit. Accommodation / Hotel - Our host hotel this year is the Best Western Stoke-On-Trent Moat House Hotel. The hotel is four-star rated and ideally located within the heart of the Midlands. The hotel has been built within the grounds of the magnificent Etruria Hall, Josiah Wedgwood’s former home and the former venue for the first National Garden Festival in 1985. The Potteries Shopping Center is in close proximity to the hotel. General Hotel Amenities: • 100% Non-Smoking Property • Cocktail Lounge • Indoor Pool • Exercise Facility with Hot Tub, Stair Stepper, Stationary Bike, Treadmill • 24 Hour Front Desk • Concierge • Porterage / Bell Services / Baggage Hold • Guest Laundry / Dry Cleaning • Safe Deposit Box • Shoe Shine • Barber / Beauty Shop • Business Center • Computer Rental • Fax Machine & Fax Services (Outgoing Fax Charges Apply) • Dataports / High-speed Internet Available (Charges Apply) • Banking • Foreign Currency Exchange • Air-Conditioning • Hearing Impaired Facilities • Lift, Wheelchair Accessible Available To 3 Floors Guest Room Amenities: • Cable Satellite Television • AM / FM Alarm Clock • Coffee / Tea Maker • Hairdryer • Desk / Work Area • Dataports • Direct Dial Telephone • Room Service Available 24 Hours • Air-Conditioning • Complimentary Newspaper Available • Trouser Press • In-Room Safe • Wake-Up Calls • Easy Chair • Adjoining Rooms • Bidet • Electrical Outlet At Desk • In-Room Toiletries • Skirt Hangers • Plugs Near Mirror

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