(Text-only) MEETINGS PROGRAMME

The Caughley Society holds two meetings a year, usually at the Coalport China Museum site, near Ironbridge in Shropshire, England, home of the national Caughley porcelain collection. The Spring meeting is normally held on the first Saturday in April (unless this coincides with the Easter holiday period), and the Autumn one on the first Saturday in October. Full details of each meeting are published on this website as soon as they are available. Other events are also organised.

Visitors are particularly welcome. To encourage younger people to take an interest, the Society now offers up to five free places at each of our meetings to people under the age of 25 studying in an appropriate field (for instance ceramics, design, fine art) at further and higher education establishments, museums, auctioneers and organisations such as the National Trust.

If you would like to attend one of our meetings, whether as a paying visitor or younger person, please send us an email by clicking on the 'Contact Us' button on the left of this page.

Felicity Marno: Caughley and other toywares

Felicity has been dealing in and researching English ceramics since 1980 when she founded Stockspring Antiques. In 1987 she and her co-director Antonia Agnew moved to 114 Kensington Church Street, which was a large premises perfect for displaying ceramics and for mounting exhibitions. For many years she was on the committee of the English Ceramic Circle. Felicity has contributed several papers to its Transactions, and is an honorary vice-president. She is on the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars and is chair of the Education Committee. Since closing the shop in 2016 she has been a consultant helping clients with their collections and catalogues.

Olly Cartwright: Fantastic beasts and where to find them - 18th century dragons on Caughley and other factories

Currently the Society’s press and publicity officer and a member of the Northern Ceramics Society, Olly is part-custodian, with his father John, of a varied family collection of Caughley porcelain alongside a modest 18th and early 19th century reference collection.

Allan Smith: A field somewhere near Broseley - crop marks and geophysics

Allan Smith is an active member of the Society and was responsible for the rebuild of the Caughley monument near the site of the factory. He has talked to the Society before about the hidden archaeology in the area and will now give an update.