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EARTH, HAND AND FIRE

Back in 1976, in the heart of a small village community in rural Warwickshire, Jim and Dominique Keeling founded Whichford Pottery, striving for a better, ethical and more sustainable, community-focused way of life. Jim had learned the skills and methods of this ancient craft while apprenticed to potter, Reginald Harris, at his fourth generation Wrecclesham Pottery. Passionate about keeping ‘traditional hand-throwing and hand-pressing pottery skills alive,’ Jim established his own pottery at Whichford, and fifty years on, the

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