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Reproduction plate - souvenir of an exhibition of Maling ware and history, 1998. Made by Blakeney Pottery, as Maling were no longer in business. The pottery was founded at North Hylton, Sunderland in 1762, [1] and transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1817. [2] Increasing business allowed the Maling family to build two further potteries, each ...
Norman Carling (1902–1971) was an English designer/modeller in ceramics, who created a large number of Art Deco models and joined Maling pottery in 1935 from the firm of A.J. Wilkinson, a company which also employed Clarice Cliff. He was responsible for Maling's classic 1930s art deco design called "Blossom Time". [1]
George Allan Maling VC (6 October 1888 – 9 July 1929) was an English medical doctor and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
In 1762 the Maling pottery was founded in Sunderland by French Huguenots, but transferred to Newcastle in 1817. A factory was built in the Ouseburn area of the city. The factory was rebuilt twice, finally occupying a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) site that was claimed to be the biggest pottery in the world and which had its own railway station. The ...
Characteristically the background colour is white and the image blue, but various factories have used other colours in monochrome tints and there are Victorian versions with hand-touched polychrome colouring on simple outline transfers. In the United States of America, the pattern is commonly referred to as Blue Willow.
A jury found the teenager not guilty on Feb. 5 on a first-degree murder charge and a kidnapping charge in connection to the death of his mother.
The Bybit cryptocurrency exchange said it was hacked on Friday. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said the estimated loss stood at $1.5 billion. Analysts say it may be the biggest crypto hack ever.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration is moving to strip a slimmed-down U.S. Agency for International Development of its independence and put it under State Department control, two ...