In February Circle President Genine Wallinga will speak on ‘Staffordshire Treasure: visiting the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent’.

Staffordshire was the heart of the English pottery industry and this museum is, in her opinion, the English pottery centre of the universe. It has a comprehensive collection that goes back to the Bronze age. She will take you on a tour of some of its highlights, including the pots of the Beaker people, early glass, ecclesiastical tiles, tea wares, sculpture and pottery dialogues across the world.

Annual General Meeting will be held in March with another ‘show and tell’, and the theme will be ‘All that Glitters is not Gold’.