Featured Objects
This is a lapel badge, just above the symbols is a small golden thistle. |
Although Belfield's of Prestonpans enjoyed a reputation for their production of teapots and tablewares, the pottery also produced a wide range of functional domestic crockery, such as this piedish. |
Belfield's pottery flourished in Prestonpans from the early nineteenth century until around the time of World War II. |
This planter was made at Belfields Pottery in Prestonpans. They produced a wide range of domestic wares, especially teapots. |
Victorian potteries produced a large variety of cheap earthenware goods, such as this barrel money-box or bank. The slot at the top has been broken to retrieve the coins within. |
This is a large shiny brown teapot. Its handle and spout are modelled after tree branches or twigs. This is a fully functional, yet decoratively interesting item of domestic ware. |
Although this pair of creamers (cream jugs) have been attributed to the North British Pottery in Glasgow, similar items were being made at many Scottish potteries including those at Prestonpans; he |
This photographic picture postcard shows North Berwick from the sea. During the first few years of the 20th century a postcard craze swept the United Kingdom. |
This colour postcard was made around 1905, but the photograph was taken a few years earlier. It shows strollers on Dunbar's clifftop promenade, built for the benefit of holidaymakers in 1893. |
This is a photograph of a steam locomotive at North Berwick Station in September 1948. |
