Lansdown Pottery is an exciting community craft workshop in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire. It opened in its present home in 1999, sharing the former Victorian Art School with a number of other artistic and educational organisations. The renamed Lansdown Pottery was initially established in 1981 at William Morris House, a Camphill Community, in Eastington. It had been a part of a group of craft workshops dedicated to providing further education and training in a creative environment for young adults with Learning Difficulties. On moving to Stroud we felt that it was important to continue the educational and training aspect of our work, working with the local community, in a much wider way. Through these aims 1 We have classes for the public. 2 Give education and training to local colleges and schools. 3 Provide training for people with learning difficulties. 4 Offer workshop facilities for local craftspeople. We also felt that it was equally important to have a working pottery that produced commercially with a display of attractive items.

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"All this of Pot and Potter -- Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"
- Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker"), The Rubaiyat (st. 87), (FitzGerald's translation)

Lansdown Pottery - The Centre for Science & Art - Lansdown - Stroud - GL5 1BB - UK - Tel/Fax 01453 753051