Titian Studio Pottery Blog

 Let's start at the beginning. Front L to R: Brown brothers, Cameron (Snr), Neil and Jack with Vivien (Jack’s daughter)  and Cameron Jnr perched behind them. Neil's dog is a Scottish Terrier named Sandy.  Cam Jnr believes this photo was taken in the summer of 1950 before he started school. He thinks it was a Sunday because Jack, who was very religious, was dressed in his Sunday best. Coming home from the war in 1947 with wife Dorothy and baby Cam, Cameron Snr briefly worked at the Waitakere Brick Works with his father and two brothers before joining Crown Lynn. He managed to get jobs for brothers, Jack and Neil there. In about 1949 Cameron left Crown Lynn, briefly working at a timber yard. He, along with Dorothy and little Cam Jnr moved a couple of old army huts from Waitakere Brick Works to a piece of land on Bethells Road opposite the old school house. One hut was for making the moulds and casting them. The second was where they displayed the finished products for sale....

 The Fortune Teller's face was based on a photograph of who?   Sherwood - The Fortune Teller (1953) For the majority of us we have only ever known Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth as our monarch, however for my ninety-one-year-old father, King Charles will be the fourth King he's known (1) . The morning I heard the news of the Queen's death was the anniversary of my mother's passing thirty three years ago. I cried. Mum loved Princess Elizabeth, who later became the Queen of England. She purchased many royalty books over her life time. Her childhood scrap books were filled with magazine and newspaper cuttings of the two princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret growing up, and colourful pictures of flowers, dogs and birds.  (1) George V (died 1936), Edward V111 (abdicated 1936), George V1 (died 1952), Elizabeth (died 2022), King Charles 111.  King George V and Queen Mary with their grand-daughter Princess Elizabeth (The lives of the Kings & Queens of England edite...