Wedgewood's Cup Runneth Over

How sad to see that Wedgewood's have gone into administration. Like Woolworths, Wedgewood was an icon of a past British age. It represented everything good about British manufacturing, craftsmanship, quality and design. It was in the eighteenth century that Josiah Wedgewood founded his empire in Burslem, Staffordshire. Later he was to build a new town Estruria, near Stoke-On-Trent. It was here that the finer wedgewood was made whilst Burslem produced the everyday ware items. He used great artists to create and design his pieces. At a time when the middle classes were becoming more prosperous Josiah Wedgewood gave them beautiful and desirable creations. The Wedgewood name became synonymous with beauty, quality and elegance. Alas, we now live in an age where those attributes are becoming increasingly less important.