Clarice Cliff cubist patterns appeared on these shapes, such as the 1929 "Ravel" (seen on Cliff's Conical shape ware) which was an abstract leaf and flower pattern named after the composer. The image shows a Conical coffee pot, and sugar bowl and cream with four triangular feet, another of Cliff's rather Bizarre shape ideas which proved popular with 1930s customers. "Ravel" was to be produced between 1929 and at least as late as 1935. In 1928 Clarice produced a simple, hand painted pattern of "Crocus" flowers in orange, blue and purple, each flower being constructed with confident upward strokes. Then green leaves
What Hetty Did What Hetty Did What Hetty Did is the seventh novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1988 when he was 76 years old. The novel describes the experiences of an 18-year-old girl. Hetty Birtwisle has been brought up by adoptive parents in the Fens; after a beating by her father, discovering that she was adopted, she flees to Birmingham where she has learnt she was born and alters her surname to Beauchamp. Hetty Beauchamp comes across several characters from Carr's other novels in the boarding house in which she lives, including Emma Foxberrow, a teacher in "The Harpole Report" and Edward