LATEST NEWS.......................................20/01/2010
Australian Collectors! If you want to make contact with other Australian Collectors please contact Heather Hobbs at hhobbo@bigpond.com !!! She wants to set something up for you guys!
Also
Just had notification that this unusual 5" PEPPER Jar with a Church Backstamp will appear on Ebay very soon. Not that many of these around!
Sale of the Century
Fancy some Pharos or a fling with Ivanhoe? Carried away on a Cube? Going Over the Hill to Oakville for Polo at Grassmere to watch the Hunt Club in Blue Jerseys?
No, we haven’t had too much sun this summer, these names are just part of our lives and have been for more years than we might like to remember. Need a clue?
How about “Crazy about Cornish Kitchen Ware” or “Dotty on Domino”?
Yes, you’ve got it, they are all the names of ranges of pottery once produced by the family firm of T. G. Green and now that the Museum and Cornish Café are closed, the family have decided the time has come to clear out the cupboards and let the old, family friends find new homes.
The Green family are based in Hampshire – which was where the Cornish Ware Café was first opened in 1998 and a Museum was set up to illustrate the factory’s varied output from the 1880’s to present day. The range was vast but it was really the fresh, blue and white striped kitchen ware that first brightened our grand parent’s lives in the 30’s that has caught the public’s imagination.
Richard Dennis and Paul Atterbury – of Antiques Roadshow and Andy Pandy fame, who were both collectors and enthusiasts of T G Green’s pottery, collaborated in 1996 to publish CORNISH WARE, a History of the Factory. The book, complete with it’s blue and white striped cover was a huge success and the second edition, some five year’s later and sporting a multi coloured, striped jacket, has proved the definitive reference source.
Many of the pieces illustrated were from the Green family or Museum and Derek Green – the great Grandson of the original founder, will be selling these at his old shop this November. While some pieces are pristine, many are cracked and crazed but may be the only examples left from the much loved factory and from the Museum. From pounds to pennies, there is something for everyone.
When: Saturday 7th November 2009
Where: 63 High Street, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire RG27 8HL
For further information and photographs please contact:
Derek & Sally Green: 01252 842653 sg@cedar-antiques.com
07/05/2009
UK Members - Open Days Information Released!
T.G. Green have confirmed that the Open Days will go ahead on the 29th & 30th May 2009, Thats a Friday and a Saturday!
The Venue is:
Sharpe's Pottery Museum
23 West Street,
Swadlincote,
Derbyshire
DE11 9DG.
Both days will start at 10am and will run to 4pm on the Friday and 3pm on the Saturday.
There will be a selection of NEW STOCK for sale along with some Pre-2007 items that are still available.
**Valuations**
**Collectors Club Membership Applications**
**Vintage Stock for sale from a number of Vendors** - TBC
**Plans of the NEW FACTORY - Subject to Planning Consent**
**FREE CORNISH CREAM TEAS**
A
number of the T.G. Green staff will be available for you to meet and
ask questions, along with myself to allow you to give me feedback and
ideas!
!!!!!!!!THE OPEN DAYS ARE BACK!!!!!!!!
FURTHER INFORMATION TO BE RELEASED ASAP - Please watch this space!
22/04/09
FOR UK MEMBERS ONLY -
Sorry rest of the World Wide Collectors!
Please keep these dates free in your diary!
29th & 30th May 2009!
Exciting News to follow - All will be revealed in a day or so! - Please be prepared to travel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For ALL Members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An article is to appear in Collect It! Magazine in the July Edition. Written by Val Baynton.
Photo's, News, History and buying tips and quotes from yours truly!
The article goes on to tell us about the joys of collecting T.G. Green Cornishware.
Reserve your copy now - On sale at larger WHSmith or by reserving from your local Newsagent
Out 9th June 2009!
12/04/09We have all now reached yet another milestone!
We have 200 International Members!
Thank you for your continued support!
200 MEMBERS STRONG! and growing day by day
24/2/09
We have been contacted by Chandlers of Edinburgh who are offering a special offer on some of their limited remaining stocks of Cornishware.
Please contact them for further details on:
Chandlers
68 St. Stephen Street
Stockbridge
Edinburgh
EH3 5AQ
Order Hotline: 0131 220 5472
Or Click Here for their online store! This could be your last chance of getting hold of some UK stock and special editions at great prices.
Cranberry Jar - 2 left
Brandy sauce - 2 left
Pie Funnel - 3 left
Open Cruet set - 2 left
Special Edition Spice Jars - 2 left
CREAM - SOLD OUT
CUSTARD - SOLD OUT
PASTA JAR - 1 left
MUESLI - 1 LEFT
Black stripe Cafetiere - 1 left
Current stock list as at 15/05/09
29/10/2008
Members of the Official Collectors Club are already benefiting from this service by an exclusive discount with a reputable shop on Ebay. For the whole of November all items within this select shop will be giving a 10% discount world wide.
If you have not yet joined the Official Collectors Club then please do so here. You will also receive a quarterly news letter (next issue due at Christmas period), information direct from T G Green Ltd, product news and much much more!!
Once again if you have not yet joined, do so today.
07/10/2008
The Website is ONE YEAR OLD today.
We sincerely hope you have found something of interest during that time.
We have thoroughly enjoyed putting all this together and have spent many hours doing it.
Thank you for all your support and input. We couldn't have done this without you!
21/09/08
Today saw the first issue of the Official Collectors Club E-newsletter circulated.
Only signed up members of the Collectors Club will revieve this E-newsletter.
If you have not yet signed up, please do so to ensure you are first to receive the E-newsletters and information direct from TG Green Ltd.
15/09/2008
ITS OFFICIAL !!!!!ITS HERE!!!!!
Cornishbluecollectors.co.uk has now become the proud guardians of
The Official Cornish Blue Collectors Club.
We have been in close discussions with T G Green Ltd regarding this and they acknowledge this site as the Official Collectors Club with open arms.
We will be bringing you other extremely exciting news in the very near future
If you would like to join the Collectors Club, please complete the form on the
The club is totally free!!!!! We want to make this club YOUR club so don't hesitate, join today and start to receive our new E-Newsletters and further exciting information direct from T G Green Ltd.
27/08/2009
We have now, after much negotiation, managed to secure the domain name..............................
We very much hope that this will increase the traffic to the site for our international visitors. The service will remain seamless to our current domain name and anybody using the .com name will be redirected to our .co.uk site.
The future of the site is now very much secure and we are delighted at the prospects for this site. Having had almost 2100 unique new visitors in just 10 months, we hope to continue to grow and develop a site in line with our visitors needs.
In order to achieve this we need your ideas, suggestions and input. Please keep them coming!
We will also be sending some further news about exciting developments, prospects and ideas, as and when we can. (Top Secret at the moment!)
KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE
20/07/08
We now have a My Space!!!If you are already a member of My Space, please send a request to us as a friend. If not please sign up!
Our My Space is a little basic at the moment but we will be building this in time.
We are hoping that with the addition to My Space, more collectors world wide will get in touch.
See you there!!
15/07/08
Sadly........... The T.G. Green Factory site has fallen into massive disrepair and has now been placed on the "High Risk" register at English heritage. The following story was in The Burton Mail. We must lobby South Derbyshire Council to do everything possible to save this historic building and the fabulous four bottle kilns.
WE WANT TO SAVE THIS IMPORTANT BUILDING.
Please, please HELP US and write to:
South Derbyshire District Council
Conservation & Heritage Department
Civic Offices,
Civic Way,
Swadlincote,
Derbyshire
DE11 0AH
We will try to find the full article and publish it here.
Thank you to Michael for supplying the news article.
16/05/08
11/05/2008
We have listed the second round of stock on Ebay. There will be further items being added next week so keep your eyes open.
Please visit our Ebay shop at
05/05/2008
We have added a large quantity of stock onto Ebay today, including Special Editions such as Honey Jar and Jam Jar. More stock to follow next week.
We now only have one of each size T-Shirt left. These are also listed on Ebay. If you request to purchase one (or more!) of these through our web site, you will receive a discount.
15/04/2008
T-Shirts now ready for despatch
As previously advised, our Special Edition 2008 Cornish Ware Collector T-Shirts are going to be listed on E Bay as a "Buy it Now" item.
They are 100% cotton and are screen printed in a professional print house. They are pre-shrunk and are of the highest quality.
Please see the photo's below
Front View
Back View
Please go to our ebay website at:
We have already sold quite a few and there are limited stocks now available.
There will be a strict limited edition of 50 of these.
If these prove to be as popular as we know they will there will be other exciting designs in the near future.
!!!!!!!!!!! NEWS EXCLUSIVE - HOT OFF THE PRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!! 09/04/08
The TG Green Cornishware factory in Church Gresley, Derbyshire was closed last June, and the tableware will now be made in China.
Chomette Dornberger managing director Charles Rickards told HousewaresLive.net: "We're going into production in May, and product will be available in the UK from July or August.
"We're starting with 55 SKUs of just the blue to start with, and we haven't decided whether we're going to carry on production of the other colours."
However, he added: "We're having conversations with designers about new shapes and concepts for launch towards the end of spring next year."
In the meantime, he said, product availability was "limited at the moment but we've acquired all the stock. We've got 70% of the Cornish Blue lines, we've got seconds and good stocks of all the other colours."
Although the main production will be in China, Chomette Dornberger is also looking to open a micro-factory in the UK. Rickards said it could be near the old Church Gresley site or in Cornwall itself.
"It will probably employ 20 to 25 people and will involve having a factory shop and tourist centre where people can actually see the product being made," he said. David French, former chief executive of The Tabletop Group, told HousewaresLive.net that he was "very disappointed" that Cornish Blue was now to be made overseas.
"It's an iconic British design and it should have stayed in the UK, but it wasn't to be the case," he said. However, he added that he understood that the cost of manufacturing in the UK made it unfeasible.
02/04/2008
We have commissioned a new range of T-Shirts for the CORNISH WARE COLLECTOR.
These will be for sale on Ebay to test the water. They have been professionally made at a factory in Europe and are high quality silk screen printed.
As a subscriber to this site you will have first sight at them!
Watch this space for pictures!!
We have managed to find out that a deal is about to be struck for the future of TG Green.
Stories that they have been sold previously, have been untrue.
Watch this space!!!!!!!
PS - Don't forget, those seconds are still out there, keep your eyes peeled
21/11/2007
A long time coming but we have a wee update - We have managed to speak with the administrators to see if there is any news. Well it appears that TG Green is STILL for sale. Also, all seconds stock has still to be sold but negotiations are in place at present - so watch this space!. As soon as we know more we will let you know - promise.
09/10/2007
The T G Green Factory and site is "For Sale" and advertised for "Development Potential". There is already a large number of new houses being built in Church Gresley and we wonder if it will be used for more! The Security man at the site was telling us on Saturday that the Bottle Kilns are listed. Parts of the old original factory are in a bad state of repair and lead and electrical copper wires have been stripped by thieves. How heart breaking is this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Photos courtesy of Kevin & Mandie Veal
06/10/2007
Well god knows whats happening. First we were told by an external source T G Green and Cornishware Brands had been sold for six months before going into administration to a company in Sheffield. According to the administrators the name etc etc is still for sale at a costly price but with several interested parties. If you know any further info on this please get in touch so we can publish it first on this web site. This is not just for our interest, but for all avid collectors and interested parties.