Down toEarth Pottery

Lesley Woods teaches hand-building pottery classes with her co-tutor Emma from the craft room at Whalley Old Grammar School Community Centre on Station Road. There is no wheel in the room. Sessions run two hours and cost sixteen pounds plus firing fees, with students shaping mugs, jugs, vases, garden sculpture, or clay jewellery from soft clay rather than throwing it. Classes currently run on Wednesday mornings from nine o'clock, sold as termly blocks alongside one-off day sessions for beginners and more experienced potters. Woods has worked with clay for more than twenty years and takes bookings directly by phone rather than through an online system.