George Lailey’s bowls were so popular that Harrods sold them. One even toured the world in a show about English crafts.
Like his forebears, George Lailey operated out of a small workshop, Turner’s Green, Bucklebury in rural Berkshire. An item made by him was collected by the British Council in the 1940s and toured the commonwealth. The bowl on the lathe in Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading is said to have been one he was making at the time of his death in 1958.
His grave in Bucklebury is appropriately marked with a wooden cross.
Two Lailey bowls, the larger one well used…
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