Vic Lamb and the pot he made in school"

Elfed High School, Mill Lane, Buckley

July 2014

The pot is a "coil" pot - ed. The pot was donated to the Elfed School, where is was made years before, on the day that the Buckley Society members were invited onto the archaeological site of Price's Pottery in the school grounds. After visiting the site, the members were shown the work the children had done in one of the classrooms - washing and sorting the dig's finds into categories, labelling them and writing about their experiences of working with the archaeologists during the dig - ed.

My Life in Buckley

I was born Victor Lamb in 18, Lyme Grove to parents Wilfred and Hannah Lamb.

I have two brothers, Glyn and Ronnie, and was a twin and my sister died at birth, but I was, unto this day, unable to find anything out about my sister. About 1951 we moved up to my grandfather's house 102, Brunswick Rd and remember going out dressed up with my father and brothers on a Sunday morning going down to the White Gates for a walk, and Sunday afternoons going to Sunday school at the Wesleyan chapel, which has now gone and Mrs Powell the Sunday school teacher who lived in Baptist Row buying us a quarter of wine gums, just so that we would turn up.

My first recollection of childhood was going out with my mother and walking past Lane End Infants school and my mother saying that this will be the school that I would be attending; my days there were great, meeting a lot of good friends and remembering my teacher Mrs Kirkham with fondness.

In the 60s no one bothered us and I would remember my mum saying make sure you are in at 5 o'clock for your tea. On a Saturday me and my mates would go to the co-op and get some big cardboard boxes and a bottle of pop and spend all day up the Nowy (Knowle Hill), sliding down the hill, playing in the coal trucks, and building underground camps.

We would sometimes find an old pram and take the wheels off and make a truck borrowing my father's hammer and nails without his knowledge. Some Saturdays we would all go down to Bill Steve's bike shop in Lane End early in the morning and hire a bike for a shilling (5 pence) and take our fishing gear and cycle down to Rossett. We were only about 10 years old and by then going to the Board School up the cross.

On my first day there I was sent to Mr Foulkes' room. It was back in 1956 and it was here I met Nev Aston and to this day we have remained the best of friends.

In about 1960 I moved to the Elfed High school and one of the subjects that I had taken to was joinery; but I found I had a passion for making pots. It was when I took my first pot home that my parents told me about my ancestors; little did I know that my distant relatives were one of the first to start the potteries off in Buckley. I made a number of pots in school but only one survived.

After nearly 60 years, four children and seven grandchildren, I was surprised that it had survived this long and decided to donate it back to the school for future members of the LAMB family who attend Elfed High School to see.

July 2014

Author: Lamb, Victor

Vic Lamb and the pot he made in school"

Elfed High School, Mill Lane, Buckley

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