This bowl was made by George Lailey (1869–1958) , a wood turner who lived in Bucklebury and made bowls using a traditional foot operated pole lathe. He mostly used elm wood to make his bowls which he then polished with turmeric that had been mixed into the beeswax.
Photograph of the Cloth Hall, Newbury, 1897
Photograph of the Cloth Hall before its restoration.
