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Contact You can contact me at alex@briglin.com (please put 'Briglin' in the subject, then your email will not be filtered into my junk folder) If you have any comments on particular items or wish to contribute to the site then please send me an email. I am always happy to link other ceramic websites or to Briglin collectors on the internet. Any Briglin memoirs would also be interesting. If you send me an email then please be aware that I may publish their content on this web site.
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Feedback Thank you all for your emails! I'm still looking for descriptions of the shop. I get short emails from those who visited Crawford Street, but what I really want is descriptions! - I want to know what it was like to visit the shop? When did you visit? who was there? What was Brigitte normally doing? What was she like, did you meet her? Were they friendly? Grump? Sad? Happy? Was it empty or was it busy? How much did items sell for? How did they display items, what other stuff was for sale. What happened in the shop next door when they expanded etc etc.... I know it was 35 years ago (and it was the 60's and 70's!) but that is the information that we are losing and it would add some life to the history and photos. I would love to have lots of peoples thoughts about visiting the shop on the website! BR Alex =============================================================================================================== May 2011 Hi Alex I was talking to some peoalex@briglin.comple in my it class today, and one started talking about pottery about buying some rear pottery and I happened to mention that, that was my first job when I left school in January 1957. I was made redundant by the Christmas because the credit squeeze as it was so called. I loved every minute of the job could not get enough of it, even came home and went to evening classes a couple of night a week to learn more. At Briglin I done several jobs worked on the Pug mill weighing out clay, packing tea chest full of pottery which was sent all over the world as far as I can remember, I learned how to mix glaze and glaze the pots, load the kiln, I checked pots as they came from first firering and stacked on shelves ready for glazing. I think the man that taught me packing was called either Jim or Bill, there was a young lady worked there called Lynn she used to decorate the pots, And of course the was George Dear whom I met up with many years later in his own pottery in mid Wales we were great palls, we used to go out to lunch together, and sometimes we would go to a show after work he was a great guy. I was known as Eric at the pottery because my second name is George. I hope that this information is of use to you, I eventually went on to work for Bernard Leach in St Ives Cornwall , now I am retired in North Yorkshire, have recently written my first book called The USA by Thumb And I have become a professional wood Turner and just recently started to do wood turning demonstrations, and craft shows. my web address is scorpionwoodcraft.co.uk gallery being sorted as I lost a lot of pictures, and getting some more put on. Best Regards Eric George Smith ===============================================================================================================
July 2010 More collectors pictures please! Mavis sent me her pictures. The first is a daisy teapot and the second is an assortment of late goblets, plates and cups. Thank you Mavis. Hi Alex,
=============================================================================================================== March 2010 Hullo! I've only just discovered your site while trawling through my own. My first response was to make contact to tell you that Tile No 9 is not one of mine, though it's nice! Then while looking for your address I found your request for descriptions of the shop. I first encountered Brigitte in the late 1950's and, understandably, havew vivid memories of her and the shop. I did write a piece about it for CPA News to mark its closing, which I may be able to find. Are you still interested in descriptions. I would be happy to contribute if it would be of interest. =============================================================================================================== |
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June 2010 Nick MacPhail sent me this interesting peice with refrences to Briglin. Thanks Nick. Angus Boyd-Dudgeon (now known to everyone, it seems, as Gus Dudgeon) was a friend of mine long, long ago. He and I both went to A S Neil's (now his daughter Zoe Neil's) Summerhill school though his time there seems to be almost unrecorded. This is a shame because it was probably the freedom of thought and the recognition of everyone's near universal abilities, engendered in us all at Summerhill, that enabled him to achieve so much in his life. I know that the encouragment and the freedom (and the teaching of the difference between freedom and licence) given there enabled my success in inventing that, albeit rather late in life, has left me "comfortable". We used to hang out together in the early sixties (no I can't remember it) and I would sometimes "crash" at his mother's garden flat in Sloan Street. We would go to the parties of the time with a changing selection of pretty girlfriends and he and they would be scared almost as witless as I was, on my Ariel Arrow and, later, in my full race Cooper "S". Though the only accident I ever had was driving carefully with Angus and his girlfriend in my mum's Morris Traveller in the middle of Oxford Street (remember when you could drive down there) when a prat jumped the lights. =============================================================================================================== |
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