Looking at suburban Cheam today it is amazing to think that in medieval times this was a hive of industry with multiple pottery kilns turning out hundreds of jugs, cooking pots and storage vessels ...

The jug itself is of black-glazed pottery and although an everyday item it still shows a careful degree of attention with a small sculpted head of a god on the handle and the decorative striping ...

gurgling water jugs were invented in the late 1870s by the British company Thomas Forester & Sons. Yet the pieces are more commonly associated with the British Dartmouth Pottery, which first gave ...