Classic Cornishware blue and white crockery always makes me think of… childhood holidays in St Ives… blocks of vanilla ice cream sandwiched between rectangular wafers… canary yellow custard and apple pie… an English breakfast with bacon and eggs…. what about you?
I have quite a collection of this stripey stuff now – my Grandma had a few pieces which I loved using as a child but I bought my own first few plates and mugs in a sale in Heals back in 1995. I am still using the same mugs today and they look as good as new.
Ten years ago, vintage Cornishware was becoming collectable and expensive so my eBay purchases were fairly limited – I picked up a jug and a vinegar dropper bottle. As the range started to be restocked more widely in places like John Lewis I added a pestle and mortar and utensil jar to my collection.
My favourite piece of Cornishware however is a slightly tatty and indeed cracked jar labelled “biscuits”. I paid £5 for it in Portobello Road market but had it been in better condition its value might easily have been £60.
With the popularity of scare vintage pieces, TG Green have more recently expanded the Cornishware range beyond the familiar blue and white stripes to pastel sets of mugs and versions in green or red as you see above.
I’m delighted today to share some of my favourite crockery with a reader. These “couple of mugs” pair of stripey mugs can each be inscribed with up to 12 characters – you can put the names of your nearest and dearest on them or else pick your favourite showbiz couple… Brad and Angelina anyone?!
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Why it would have to be a traditional Cornish Pasty of course! (without the VAT lol!)
Cream teas with clotted cream and jam!
The Coastal path, bays and beaches, magnificent!
Lovely sandy beaches, scones oozing with jam and clotted cream and scrumptious cornish pasties, heaven!
Lovely sandy beaches, scones oozing with jam and clotted cream and scrumptious cornish pasties, heaven!!
Seagulls, like those in ‘The Birds’, stealing your chips in St Ives harbour 🙂
Gorgeous yummy cream teas – with scones the size of your head filled with oodles n oodles of jam n cream mmmmmmmmmmm
These days Dawn French.
Ice cream.
Beaches and childhood summer holidays
I used to go to uni there so my university memories!
Cream teas
Cornwall always brings to mind fantastic family summer holidays in our Sprite Alpine caravan – we used to stay at a campsite near Helston – idyllic 🙂
Cornish ice cream, went to St Ives on holiday and never tasty ice cream as good
Scones with clotted cream…….yummy
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I used to go to Newque in cornwall when i was young on family holidays and still to this day i remeber those yummy ice creams what they sell so creamy yum yum xx
Family holidays, breathtaking coastal scenery, fantastic surfing spots, & culinary delights.
Headland Hotel, St Ives. Very posh, when we go to Cornwall, we always stay there. Oh to be treated like a King and Queen.
Seaside holidays and tin mines and Poldark!
Cream teas, with lashings of clotted cream and strawberry jam! Yum!
My sister! – she lives there.
Family holiday spent surfing
rock pools fishing for shrimps
Cornish Pasty 🙂
Ice cream
It’s amazing coast line
Surfing
I think surfing is synonymous with cornwall – reminds me of childhood holidays with my ma and pa!
Pasties!
Stone or ice cream
Mmmmm Clotted Cream!!!!
pasties
Cream teas with clotted cream and jam
Clotted cream
The sea!
cornish pasties
beautiful beaches
Scones with clotted cream and jam
Ice cream!
a lovely cream tea
clotted cream/Ice cream… Mmmm!
Yummy clotted cream! 🙂
Home. because Cornwall is my home.
Sea and Rick Stein.
The blue sea, pasties and the scones! xoxo
cornish pasties and my yearly holidays as a kid with my family x
beaches, cream teas and pasties
I love Cornwall – memories are of clotted cream (and lots of it please!) and of wonderful beaches. Fabulous holiday destination that I hope to visit again in 2012
just back from a holiday there so Cornwall to me was a great family place,beautiful beaches, lands end, fantastic weather,great food and the smiles on my childrens faces
Lovely ice cream
Pasties! 🙂
definately cream teas!
Poldark, tin mines, beautiful countryside, fabulous beaches, Cornish ice cream, scones with jam and fresh Clotted cream.
Ice cream and nice weather.
Pasties!
cream teas!
rugged coastline and great beaches
Cream Teas and surfing
Empty beaches, refreshing wind in the face, lovely Cornish tea with scones. Thank you! @maximka25
(If I may add: a lovely prize, I have two mugs from Cornishware and treasure them).
Beautiful beaches!
@Dorothee77
Sandy beaches
Crantock cornish pasties, fresh mackeral, scone and clotted cream and that lovely thick espresso flavoured beer from the Spingo brewery, Helston its a knocker off one’s feet and never repeated elsewhere!
Cream teas @esthermate
Cream teas of course 🙂
Pasties, cream teas, surfing and rain!
Definitely cream teas, closely followed by surfing and in a distant third, my honeymoon.
Cream teas with clotted cream and strawberry jam!
Definitively Cream teas and pasties
So many things are Cornwall for me, maybe the place I got married would be my best association.
Pasty’s and surfing! 🙂 @pipersky1
cream teas
My holiday this summer! 🙂
Summer holidays and ice cream.
Surfing
Camping and the sea. I used to go there to camp with my dad and sister when I was a girl.
Fantastic beaches.
friendly people, relaxed atmosphere, cottages
Cornish Piskies and Cornish Pasties 🙂
Cornish Pasties
clotted cream
Gorgeous beaches :-)!!
it has to be pasties!
Steep coastline and lovely beaches
clotted cream
Coastline.
Clotted cream! x
My Honeymoon. 🙂
ice cream cornish pasties and lovely eyecatching beaches x
Cornish pasties eaten on the coastal path
The coastline & countryside
Beautiful beaches and blue sea
Cornish pasties.
pasties
cream teas
My brother because he lives there.
unforgetable holidays
Pasty
Gorgeous beaches, surfers, cream teas
Cream teas (and pasties)
Cream Teas!
The Eden Project
Loving the mugs!
the eden project
Beautiful beaches and surfing
Pasties
Cornishware, of course!
Pasties…obviously! Yum!
I’ve found this rafflecopter has ‘jammed’ and isn’t allowing daily tweets – anyone else having this?
Clotted cream. Yum
The beautiful coast
Wonderful scenery, pounding surf, rain, pasties and clotted cream!!!!
Gorgeous creamy ice-cream.
Pasties!
Well…actually… young love!
Beautiful Rugged coastline
My home – I am so very lucky to live in this beautiful county.
Clotted Cream 🙂
Beautiful beaches!
Family holidays in Padstow! Star gazing on the beach, cream teas in the harbour and delicious food overlooking beautiful views.
seaside
Cornish pasties
Glorious beaches
Cornish Ice cream !
Cornish pasties!
Eden project
Surfing!
Pasties and dramatic coastlines
Pasties!
I’ve never been to Cornwall but have always loved the Cornishware pottery since my Grandma had it when I was a child many, many years ago!
cream teas
Cream tea
Land’s End! 😀
Surfing and happy memories xxx
beautiful beaches and afternoon teas
Cornish pasties 😀
Lost gardens of Heligan
Cream Teas
clotted cream-now i am hungry!!
Beautiful coastal views and amazing fish and chips!
Gorgeous beaches.
It’s got to be the stunning beaches and beautiful views 🙂
Cornish Ice Cream is the first thing that springs to mind, yummy!
Cornish pasties!
Beautiful long stretch beaches! And the Mouth watering Cornish pasties
Jamaica Inn on beautiful Bodmin Moor
Pasties !
Has to be pasties!!
Fabulous family holidays at St Ives.
Cornish Pasties
cornish Ice cream!
Pasties
Tradional Cornish Pasties
CLOTTED CREAM AND SCONES
cream teas
St Michaels Mount
cream teas
I went to St Ives when I was eight
Travelling by train, it was great
The sandy beach and winding streets
Palm trees and ice cream treats
Lovely weather and the sea air
Cornish pasties sooo lovely to share
Hankering for a return stay
To reminisce of a childhood gone away
happy holidays at Newquay!
Ooh, ice cream, lots of ice cream!
Ice cream
ice-cream
Clotted cream
clotted cream
PASTRIES
Ice-cream
clotted cream – yummy!
Cornish pasties
Camel Valley wine!
Cornish Pasties
Surfing
surfing
Ice Cream
The beach
It makes me think of summer days with blue skies with wisps of clouds, and playing on the beach with an old style block ice cream cone.
CLOTTED CREAM
Pasties and clotted cream
Clotted cream!
clotted cream mmmmmmmm 🙂
Cream Tea and surfing!
cornish pasties
Cream tea and holidays in the rain 🙂
The Eden Project!
Clotted cream 🙂
cream teas.
A cream tea with thick Cornish clotted cream
Clotted Cream
I most associate scrummy Cornish Cream Teas with Cornwall – they are simply delicious!
Pasties
I’m of Cornish ancestry so it’s in the blood – pasties, wreckers, Poldark, tin mines and clotted cream!
cornish pasties you can t get that taste any where else x
Pasties!
Cream teas and pasties!
clotted cream
Pasties!
Cornish cheeses are fantastic!
Daphne Du Maurier novels
Interesting town names!
cornish pasties
Ice cream!
Cornish ice cream!
sailing
fruit scones with clotted cream and strawberries. mmmmmmm.
Pasties and ice cream
short bread thats what i think of when i think of cornwall
cream teas – delicious
It has to be clotted cream – I always try to bring some home or if someone I know is going get them to bring me some back – totally yummy mmmmm
Cream Teas
all about the cream teas and pasties!
the seaside
Cornish clotted cream
Cornish Pasties and lovely beaches
Surfing!
Beautiful scenery
Clotted cream, definitely
Cream teas and beautiful beaches
I would say sunshine … but this year may be not! but the beaches are beautiful no matter what the weather
seafood, beaches and clotted cream!
To me, Cornwall is all about the cream tea!
Ice cream!!! Yummy 🙂
Ice cream and beaches. x
I associate Cornwall with home…. I am a Cornish girl and are Cornwall Born and bred – don’t get to go back as often as I can xx
Lovely thick clotted cream yum :p
Clotted Cream & Pasties
Ice cream or pasties!
Scones with jam and clotted cream
cream
ITS GOT TO BE THE SURF, FOLLOWED BY A HOT PASTY AND CREAM TEA !!!!!!
pasties
Clotted cream 🙂 I know I should eat it with scones or something but it’s so good without!
CREAM OF cORNISH DELICIOUS ICE-CREAM & BEAUTIFUL COASTLINES.
Cornish Pasties for sure!
Tintagel Castle, and the green dragon books by Rosemary Manning I loved when I was young.
Crackers
ice cream..
always wanting to have gone there like my cousin seemed to every year when he was young – hmm but if you want something cornish – then to me – Ice Cream !! x
ice cream
My sister lived there when she had my niece so it reminds me of becoming an Aunty for the first time!
Ice cream
Cornish Pasties, Eden Project
Holidays
Cream Teas mmm
Ice Cream
Cornish Pasties!! Yummm!
Family as they live there – it’s always full of fun when we go and get together 🙂
Blue blue sea
Cornish Cream Teas
Fruit scone wiyh jam and cornish cream
A DELICIOUS CORNISH CREAM TEA! MMMMMM!
Beautiful secretive sandy bays hidden away by rocky cliffs!
Pasties!!
Cornish Cream Teas
Cornish Pasties,fresh air, smell of the sea, and clotted cream on top of an ice cream from a van of course!
St Ives – cornish pasties and cream teas
cornish pasties and cream teas
mackerel fishing
Cream tea
Cream tea, scones, jam and clotted cream
Dramatic coastline, beautiful light, inspirational gardens, mystical landmarks…I ? Cornwall so much I moved there!
Love the comments on here. Love the beach and yes cream teas!
Fish,chips and seagulls!
Cream teas!
cream teas, beaches and wind and rain
Cream tea
To my shame, I have to been to Cornwall, but it is on my ‘Things To Do’list.
Cream teas and cornish pasties
Fresh smell of the sea and large scones with cream and jam.
Cornish ice-cream
Clotted ceam tea
Surfing and, of course, Cornish Pasties.
Pasties
Cornish pasties! Yum!
Cornish Pasties
Newquay
The Dartmoor ponies, absolutely gorgeous
Surfing, cornish pasties and cream tea.
Cornish Pasties
Clotted Cream yum!
Surfing!
Fishing… whilst eating a pasty ;0)
Corish pasties
Cornish cream teas – yummy.
Nice authentic pasties!
Pixies
Got to be Cornish Pasties!
Lovely, fresh cornish cream teas!! 🙂
Pasties and cream teas 🙂
Cornish Pasties
cream teas
i live in cornwall, so its home, and love the beaches, the fresh air, the pasties, and the cream teas
fish
Cornish pasties!
pies
cream teas 🙂
Cornish ice cream
family holidays in Dad,s Camper Van ,seaside & cream teas:)
cream teas, yum!
has to be ice cream
pasties and cream teas
Seagulls
Glorious beaches and blue sea are what comes in my mind when I think of Cornwall. Wish it want so far so I could holiday there more often.
GREAT BEACHES
Pasties