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Afternoon tea at Gina’s

Published on: Published in: Club News
Gina's afternoon tea 001On Sunday 30th July members joined Gina at her home for afternoon tea. At the previous supper meeting Gina had given a talk on her collection of Shelley fine bone china and invited members to afternoon tea so that they could see the collection at first hand and take tea from Shelley cups and saucers. Everyone said the tea tasted better.
The company, a Staffordshire pottery was in existence from the 1880s to 1966. Gina and her husband specialise in collecting “tea for twos” but as the tour of the house revealed they have succumbed to other items of Shelley along the way. After a tour of the displayed china everyone gathered in the garden for cake tea and a lively discourse.
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One of the rarest and most sought after pieces of Shelley is a coffee pot of Lady Constance Lytton,
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a suffragette, whose outlook fits well  with the goals and values of our organisation.
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