{"id":57,"date":"2022-02-05T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2022-02-05T02:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:49:58","slug":"porthleven-pottery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"Porthleven Pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-group alignfull has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f8f4e4\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5vw;line-height:1.1\"><strong>A brief history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.38%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-extra-small-font-size\" style=\"color:#000000\">In 1970 Graham Fern arrived in Britain from New Zealand with his wife and four children. He wished to work with British potters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"1971\">1971<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On a trip to Cornwall he was offered a job with Jon Cheney, a potter who had worked in Porthleven for a number of years in the Old Lime Kiln building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"1972\">1972<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon moved to the Lake District while Graham stayed on making pots in the building, later moving his pottery to the ground floor of his house at 16 \/18 Peverell Road, until a workshop became available in the village. This was in Shute Lane, but only for a short period as a fire started in another building destroyed the workshop along with the street of buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"1973\">1973<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The pottery moved to a large shed in the yard beside the Harbour Hotel becoming Porthleven Pottery from 1973 &#8211; 2003. He and his wife Marjory ran the pottery, Graham throwing pots while Marjory glazed and helped load kilns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/5.8\/outside-01.jpg\" alt=\"The sun setting through a dense forest of trees.\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.62%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/5.8\/outside-02.jpg\" alt=\"Wind turbines standing on a grassy plain, against a blue sky.\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:67%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/5.8\/outside-03.jpg\" alt=\"The sun shining over a ridge leading down into the shore. In the distance, a car drives down a road.\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<h4 id=\"1985\">1985<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fenella Fern, their daughter, began working there, throwing pots remaining until 2002.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief history. In 1970 Graham Fern arrived in Britain from New Zealand with his wife and four children. He wished to work with British potters. 1971 On a trip to Cornwall he was offered a job with Jon Cheney, a potter who had worked in Porthleven for a number of years in the Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fernpottery.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}