Bus departs London hotel (Copthorne Tara) to Moat House Hotel, Stoke-on-Trent
Time:
12:00pm-1:00pm
Description:
Lunch on Your Own
Time:
3:00pm-5:00pm
Description:
Registration, Moat House Hotel
Time:
5:30pm-6:00pm
Description:
Bus departs for the new Wedgwood Museum
Time:
6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
President’s Reception @ Wedgwood Museum – meet Senior Members of the Company, Museum Trustees, Museum Staff, Volunteers
Time:
7:00pm-8:30pm
Description:
Dinner at Wedgwood Museum
Time:
8:30pm-9:00pm
Description:
After Dinner Announcements
Time:
8:00am-8:45am
Description:
Bus departs hotel for Wedgwood Museum
Time:
8:45am-9:30am
Description:
Earl Buckman,WIS President; George Stonier, President of the Museum;
Gaye Blake Roberts, Museum Director
Time:
9:30am-10:15am
Description:
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.
Time:
10:15am-11:00am
Description:
Lord Queensberry - For the last 5 years Lord Queensberry has reigned supreme in the design world, and formed, with Martin Hunt, the world-famous Queensberrry Hunt Design Association. Lord Queensberry will give his own individual thoughts on past and present design, and design philosophy.
Time:
11:00am-11:30am
Description:
Coffee Break
Time:
11:30am-12:15pm
Description:
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.
Time:
12:15pm-1:00pm
Description:
Alan Erickson - – WIS Members Open Forum
Time:
1:00pm-2:00pm
Description:
Lunch at Wedgwood
Time:
2:00pm-2:15pm
Description:
Group Photo
Time:
2:15pm-4:15pm
Description:
Visit The Wedgwood Museum (members)
Time:
2:15pm-4:15pm
Description:
WIS Board of Governors
Time:
4:15pm-6:00pm
Description:
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.
Time:
6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
Dinner at the Moat House Hotel
Time:
7:00pm-9:00pm
Description:
For light entertainment, we will be showing early 20th century films of 'The Potteries.’ Ray Johnson, senior academic lecturer at Staffordshire University, will provide a commentary and answer any questions. Ray has dedicated several decades of his life to the location and restoration of Potteries' archive film - the evening will include films of the famous and often hilarious 1930 week-long pageant which was held in Hanley Park to celebrate the bicentenary of Wedgwood's birth in 1730.
Time:
8:15am-9:00am
Description:
Bus departs hotel for Wedgwood Museum
Time:
9:00am-9:45am
Description:
Gaye Blake Roberts - Museum Director - Trained at the world-renowned Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Miss Gaye Blake Roberts is well-known to ceramic experts worldwide. She has traveled widely lecturing on Wedgwood and other ceramic subjects, and is well-published on numerous topics/titles.
Time:
9:45am-10:30am
Description:
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 renowned Charles Darwin himself, whose 200th anniversary of his birth we are also celebrating in 2009.
Time:
10:30am-11:00am
Description:
Coffee Break
Time:
11:15am-12:15pm
Description:
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.
Time:
12:15pm-1:15pm
Description:
Lunch at Nottingham Castle Museum
Time:
1:15pm-1:30pm
Description:
The Felix Joseph Collection of 18th Century Wedgwood at Nottingham Castle. Many will remember a fascinating lecture on this collection by curator Pamela Wood at our 2008 Seminar.
Time:
1:30pm-5:00pm
Description:
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.
Time:
5:00pm-6:00pm
Description:
Bus departs Nottingham Castle for Return to Stoke-on-Trent, Moat House Hotel
Time:
6:30pm-8:30pm
Description:
Dinner at a Local Pub (To Be Determined)
Time:
8:15am-9:00am
Description:
Bus departs hotel for Wedgwood Museum
Time:
9:00am-9:45am
Description:
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'.
Time:
9:45am-10:30am
Description:
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 celebrated artist Walter Crane. Her book English Ceramics, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting at Rode. Her lecture will prelude a visit to Rode Hall itself
Time:
10:30am-11:00am
Description:
Coffee Break
Time:
11:00am-12:30pm
Description:
We will pay a visit to Rode Hall and Gardens near Astbury Church – where Josiah and his wife Sarah were married in 1764. At Rode Hall, Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham and his wife will "meet and greet" their guests prior to an official tour of the noted residence and gardens.
Time:
12:30pm-1:30pm
Description:
Lunch at Rode Hall
Time:
1:30pm-4:30pm
Description:
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.
Time:
4:30pm-5:30pm
Description:
Bus departs for Moat House Hotel
Time:
6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
Cocktail Party hosted by Skinner, Inc. – Bentley Room in Etruria Hall (Moat House Hotel)
Time:
7:00pm-8:00pm
Description:
Dinner at the Moat House Hotel
Time:
9:00am-9:30am
Description:
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, which houses one of the finest collections of Staffordshire ceramics in the world.
Time:
9:30am-11:00am
Description:
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.
Time:
11:00am-11:45am
Description:
Bus departs The Potteries Museum for Wedgwood Museum
Time:
11:45am-1:00pm
Description:
Lunch at Wedgwood
Time:
1:00pm-1:45pm
Description:
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 Wilson. Alan will talk on 'his family'.
Time:
1:45pm-3:30pm
Description:
Free Time at Wedgwood Museum and Visitor’s Center
Time:
3:30pm-4:00pm
Description:
Closing Remarks from The Wedgwood Museum
Time:
4:00pm-6:00pm
Description:
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.
Time:
6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
Dinner at the Moat House Hotel
Time:
7:00pm-8:30pm
Description:
General Meeting at the Moat House Hotel
Time:
9:00am-10:00am
Description:
The Lady Lever Art Gallery, outside Liverpool in the architecturally-interesting little factory village of Port Sunlight, houses one of the world’s largest collections of Wedgwood jasperware, creamware plaques painted by George Stubbs, chimneypieces, etc. Also on view is a renowned collection of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites, Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, as well as great of English furniture and classical antiquities.
Time:
10:00am-12:00pm
Description:
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 Marjoribanks.
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.
Time:
12:00pm-1:00pm
Description:
Lunch at Lady Lever Gallery
Time:
1:00pm-4:00pm
Description:
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 Marjoribanks.
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.
Time:
4:00pm-5:00pm
Description:
Bus Departs for Return to Moat House Hotel
Time:
6:00pm-6:30pm
Description:
Bus Departs for our Annual WIS Banquet at Wedgwood
Time:
6:30pm-8:00pm
Description:
Annual WIS Banquet at Wedgwood
Time:
8:00pm-8:30pm
Description:
Bus Departs Wedgwood for Return to Moat House Hotel
