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DigForVictory

@Pollycat - Sensational footwear & what style! With a black needlecord pinafore dress - happily imagines swathes of bodies in your wake yearning to have that unique style and bravura. 

@Cherryfudge - Denby Homestead Brown - it's one of those eternal patterns (despite which Denby stopped production), the colours are serene, the shapes huggable (not, I admit, a standard requirement in a teapot or jug, but a quality you quickly learn to appreciate!) and as it's brown, people overlook it as not the hip trendy thing they were daydreaming of... All The More For Us!

Recently RL has been going slightly mad. So much so, I have a Lovatts (Denby took them over when they needed the staff & kilns) jug pierced for a small metal flappy lid (of course lost) & an unidentified Denby mug (truffle design but very pale pink) still in my fleece in the car. Not Truffle, not Mist Falls, a very pale pink & frankly bought for the shape for reference but I can't use it as reference until I know what it is & it's a 2007+ design so my -1997 book is cuddled close but growled over.

I've another Ferndale? piped white on green vase which Himself brought home to me in triumph - the Colledge basestamp he reckoned was worth the lugging.

Pollycat

DigForVictory said:

@Pollycat - Sensational footwear & what style! With a black needlecord pinafore dress - happily imagines swathes of bodies in your wake yearning to have that unique style and bravura. 

@Cherryfudge - Denby Homestead Brown - it's one of those eternal patterns (despite which Denby stopped production), the colours are serene, the shapes huggable (not, I admit, a standard requirement in a teapot or jug, but a quality you quickly learn to appreciate!) and as it's brown, people overlook it as not the hip trendy thing they were daydreaming of... All The More For Us!

Recently RL has been going slightly mad. So much so, I have a Lovatts (Denby took them over when they needed the staff & kilns) jug pierced for a small metal flappy lid (of course lost) & an unidentified Denby mug (truffle design but very pale pink) still in my fleece in the car. Not Truffle, not Mist Falls, a very pale pink & frankly bought for the shape for reference but I can't use it as reference until I know what it is & it's a 2007+ design so my -1997 book is cuddled close but growled over.

I've another Ferndale? piped white on green vase which Himself brought home to me in triumph - the Colledge basestamp he reckoned was worth the lugging.

Thanks, DFV - lovely to see you on here.
When I wore the boots on Thursday, I had 3 complete strangers come up to me to compliment me on the boots.

I bought another coat for OH on Thursday. £2.00 Air Ambulance.
A Next 'Made in Italy' wool mix.
All external pockets are still stitched up.
One for sale on eBay (used) for £25.00.
It's too small. 
And he's not keen on the colour (black).
So I'll steam it and put it on eBay and split any profit with AA.

I smashed 2 of my Denby Glynbourne jugs on Christmas Day. 
DFV: Page 125 GB861 and GB868.
I had a Cobridge vase on top of our home theatre speaker and it vibrated off into my collection of jugs.
The other 5 survived.

Cherryfudge

@DigForVictory, I can't understand why they stopped producing Homestead Brown, it's such a beautiful combinations of homely and elegant. We have Regency Green nowadays (I prefer the blue but DH doesn't like it!) but I still track down Homestead pieces: the jugs seem to have survived best and the dinner plates almost not at all but I like the concave-sided mugs the best!

@Pollycat to your poor Glynbourne jugs.

Rosa_Damascena

Yesterday's haul: a scarf and BN 1000 piece puzzle for £1 each, and 2 good quality rain macs for £2 each (fully aware that I need neither).

DigForVictory

@Pollycat Owch! Back to the hunt...  A cousin has a firm policy that whenever the most beautiful china is broken she promptly finishes the job (with a rolling pin) & puts the pieces in pots of cuttings she intends to sell on. Ruthless disposal of the evidence, hope & beauty circulated, but with the reference pieces I'm more inclined to try Araldite & cunning positioning.
@Cherryfudge, economics I think - Denby has had changes of ownership & in 1986 there was the Coloroll takeover - to be fair they did try Homestead Brown on new shapes, but looking at the new patterns they were trying to shift (a lot of varied screen printed florals on what to me look somewhat insipid backgrounds), it would have looked 'odd' alongside the new products & so history, loyal following, established market & so forth would have been ignored as they endeavoured to leap forward into the market rather than trade on that history (which hadn't been working terribly well, hence the takeover's success). It took them a while to realise there was an appetite for the trad style and so Imperial Blue, Regency Green & Colonial Blue emerged to allow the shapes to catch the eye rather than the decorations, and blues & greens has been staple shades whereas brown has been allowed to become retro...

Look at furnishing - brown furniture is right out of fashion (other than with the devout eco-sustainably reused market who shockingly Do Not Spend Money), we're offered painted wood (ye gods), or pale wood - pine mostly, oak sometimes, and with kitchens there are even more space age materials, high gloss, bright, (over illuminated) - and very little designed to showcase. The Welsh Dresser is not part of the fitted kitchen. Neither is the bookcase - where do you keep the cookbooks?! Let alone the pans, moulds, cutters & other fun tools - hidden in deep drawers which are a swine to haul open & then to repack so they shut. Ahem, time to get off my soapbox & go hug a teapot..

I will not start on Denby getting involved with 'influencers' & styling table settings, but that way lies short productions runs, not complete collections of a single design, a step away from the old idea the family eats together on matching plates & generally keeping tabs on the new "patterns" has become a real challenge - not least as I can't afford new & they're not coming through to the car boots near me yet. The lads might well squint & think "looks familiar" but I seriously doubt they'll be doing the dance of 'can I have a look?' and inspecting the basestamp... As for and who will appreciate my horde of Denby - well, anyone dressing a set that needs to be robustly & credibly 1950s, 60s, 70s, etc, so I may well bid the lads have a rummage for stuff they want (and not for shooting practice) & then invite St Fagans & other musea to come & take a selection. Then take the rest (a well padded 6 horse box should do) & set up a stall at an outdoor antiques fair. They may meet other Denbyholics & realise their mother was not wholly alone in her quirks, and recognise the resigned slump as further young are sent off carefully lugging...

Pollycat

DigForVictory said:

@Pollycat Owch! Back to the hunt...  A cousin has a firm policy that whenever the most beautiful china is broken she promptly finishes the job (with a rolling pin) & puts the pieces in pots of cuttings she intends to sell on. Ruthless disposal of the evidence, hope & beauty circulated, but with the reference pieces I'm more inclined to try Araldite & cunning positioning.
@Cherryfudge, economics I think - Denby has had changes of ownership & in 1986 there was the Coloroll takeover - to be fair they did try Homestead Brown on new shapes, but looking at the new patterns they were trying to shift (a lot of varied screen printed florals on what to me look somewhat insipid backgrounds), it would have looked 'odd' alongside the new products & so history, loyal following, established market & so forth would have been ignored as they endeavoured to leap forward into the market rather than trade on that history (which hadn't been working terribly well, hence the takeover's success). It took them a while to realise there was an appetite for the trad style and so Imperial Blue, Regency Green & Colonial Blue emerged to allow the shapes to catch the eye rather than the decorations, and blues & greens has been staple shades whereas brown has been allowed to become retro...

Look at furnishing - brown furniture is right out of fashion (other than with the devout eco-sustainably reused market who shockingly Do Not Spend Money), we're offered painted wood (ye gods), or pale wood - pine mostly, oak sometimes, and with kitchens there are even more space age materials, high gloss, bright, (over illuminated) - and very little designed to showcase. The Welsh Dresser is not part of the fitted kitchen. Neither is the bookcase - where do you keep the cookbooks?! Let alone the pans, moulds, cutters & other fun tools - hidden in deep drawers which are a swine to haul open & then to repack so they shut. Ahem, time to get off my soapbox & go hug a teapot..

I will not start on Denby getting involved with 'influencers' & styling table settings, but that way lies short productions runs, not complete collections of a single design, a step away from the old idea the family eats together on matching plates & generally keeping tabs on the new "patterns" has become a real challenge - not least as I can't afford new & they're not coming through to the car boots near me yet. The lads might well squint & think "looks familiar" but I seriously doubt they'll be doing the dance of 'can I have a look?' and inspecting the basestamp... As for and who will appreciate my horde of Denby - well, anyone dressing a set that needs to be robustly & credibly 1950s, 60s, 70s, etc, so I may well bid the lads have a rummage for stuff they want (and not for shooting practice) & then invite St Fagans & other musea to come & take a selection. Then take the rest (a well padded 6 horse box should do) & set up a stall at an outdoor antiques fair. They may meet other Denbyholics & realise their mother was not wholly alone in her quirks, and recognise the resigned slump as further young are sent off carefully lugging...

100% agree, DFV.
I have Greenwich which has been in production for ever (1994), mine were bought from the old Denby warehouse as seconds.
The roof leaked and there were stacks of stuff, we used to take a bag of wet tea-towels and wipe everything to decide if they were good enough. I have pieces of Greenwich which never made it into production.
We have lunch and dinner at the table from Greenwich plates and I have my cereal from rice bowls and porridge from noodle bowls.
I have just made a moussaka in my Denby oblong dish - they don't seem to do ovenware now.
Imperial Blue and Regency Green are 2 other designs that are long-lived - introduced in 1989.

Rosa_Damascena

Look at this article - I would feel properly mugged off if I lived in Wimbledon village!

Pollycat

Rosa_Damascena said:

Look at this article - I would feel properly mugged off if I lived in Wimbledon village!

Gulp!

I don't reckon much to the style of the skirt but if that cost £7.50 and the RL blouse cost £15.99, that means the Carvela boots cost only £10.00.

I might have been tempted at those depending on condition.

Floss

Pollycat said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Look at this article - I would feel properly mugged off if I lived in Wimbledon village!

Gulp!

I don't reckon much to the style of the skirt but if that cost £7.50 and the RL blouse cost £15.99, that means the Carvela boots cost only £10.00.

I might have been tempted at those depending on condition.

If you lived in Wimbledon village, your shopping budget may be slightly higher than currently. To be honest, that's on a par with Alderley Edge & Wilmslow.

Pollycat

Floss said:

Pollycat said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Look at this article - I would feel properly mugged off if I lived in Wimbledon village!

Gulp!

I don't reckon much to the style of the skirt but if that cost £7.50 and the RL blouse cost £15.99, that means the Carvela boots cost only £10.00.

I might have been tempted at those depending on condition.

If you lived in Wimbledon village, your shopping budget may be slightly higher than currently. To be honest, that's on a par with Alderley Edge & Wilmslow.

I think I might disagree with the 'slightly higher budget'. 

I'm a gal used to shopping in the Air Ambulance everything £2.00 shop.