Anne Whiting obituary

My mother, Anne Whiting, who has died aged 97, co-founded with my father, Geoffrey, Avoncroft Pottery at Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire, one of the pioneering studio workshops established after the second world war.Geoffrey, who had returned from army service in India in 1948, started a pottery at Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, and met Anne when he went to teach at Stoke House, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. This had been set up by Anne and her parents, Noel and Dorothea Heath, as a residential college r