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Welcome to Éva Rose Le Chevalier
Tuesday 02 October, 2012
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Éva Rose, a 250 year connection to her Great Grandparents in Devon

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Congratulations from Steph and Steve to son Andrew and his wife Debs on the birth daughter Éva Rose Le Chevalier, in Winsford, Cheshire on 23rd September 2012.

The happy event came within a month of Éva’s Great Grandparents celebrating their Diamond Wedding Anniversary in Newton Abbot, Devon, which through a quirk of commerce has a historical connection with Winsford.

The area around Newton Abbot has since the late seventeenth century been famous as a source of high quality clays. However, unlike Stoke on Trent some 220 miles to the North, Devon had no coal to fire the clay to make ceramic ware. By contrast, whilst 18th Century fashion was rapidly moving towards high quality cream and white ceramic, the clays local to Stoke on Trent produced only terracotta ware.

Foremost in developing the potters' art was Josiah Wedgwood, who systematically researched material sources and production methods. Soon after setting up his own business in Stoke in 1759 Wedgwood imported “the whitest clays of Devonshire” a major feat of organisation at the time.

Clay having been cut by hand into cubic blocks from the clay pits around Kingsteinton was taken by pack horse to Hackney Quay, The blocks were loaded onto barges for shipment down the River Teign, before being again transferred to sailing boats at Teignmouth. After a perilous journey around the Isles of Scilly to Liverpool, the clay was again transferred to barges for shipping down the River Weaver to Winsford which prior to the building of the Trent and Mersey canal was the closest point waterborne transport could get to Stoke. Finally after offloading, the final 30 mile journey was accomplished by packhorse. With all that handling its no wonder the edges of the clay blocks became rounded and the product from the West Country uniquely became known as Ball Clay.

Back to the main story …..our images are of Éva just a few hours old and proud Great Grandparents at their Diamond Wedding celebration.
We have also included a view of the start of the clay journey from Hackney Quay down the River Teign towards Teignmouth and its final waterbourne destination on the River Weaver at Winsford.




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