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Welcome.
Lark Lane Pottery classes are open to beginners and experienced potters. We encourage both wheel thrown and hand-built techniques in a friendly community atmosphere.
NEWCOMERS:
For Wednesday and Thursday class’ you can sign up to our beginners waitlist here or message John Ayling: 07779592337
To come along to our Tuesday and Saturday session please email: hardmanceramics@gmail.com or text John Parker: 07817976422
ONE-OFF WORKSHOPS:
For one-off beginner’s experience on the wheel, parties or family sessions, please email Olivia Hardman at: hardmanceramics@gmail.com or book here.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE? If you have not been to Lark Lane Pottery before but have experience and would require just a little help, please get in touch with us if you would like to join our sessions.
Plate by Alice.
Hand-thrown and decorated in Lark Lane Pottery.
Where
The Pottery is part of the Lark Lane Community Centre at the Old Police Station on Lark Lane, postcode L17 8UU.
The Pottery is accessed from the first door on the side street, Sefton Grove.
Who
The pottery classes are run by John Parker and John Ayling with help in many sessions and behind the scences from Liv Hardman (Liv also runs one-off experience sessions). Between us we have over 60 years of experience. We offer sessions to 30 to 40 people of all levels each week with up to 12 in one session.
What we offer
We provide space, tools and equipment for you to realise your projects in clay. We provide facilities for working on the potters wheel (we have 6 electric wheels and 2 kick wheels) and for hand-building by coiling, slab-building or modelling. We use a red earthenware clay body and try to offer this at a consistency suitable for throwing and most hand-building methods.
We offer a range of in-house glazes and techniques for applying colour to your work.
If you are a complete beginner we will be glad to help get you started by showing you basic techniques for making pots on the wheel and by hand-building. Please go to our New-Starters’ page for more information on New-Starter Blocks.
Limitations
Many people attend the pottery classes each week and we do our best to make sure everybody’s work is fired within a week or two of being put in the kiln room. From time to time we may need to ask that you bear with us as our kilns may be full to capacity. In general we are unable to fire large volumes of repeat work from skilled throwers. Please talk to us before embarking on particularly large items.
Last revised 25/07/2026.
When
We offer the following sessions for Members:
Monday evening with Liv H: 6:30 to 9:00pm
Tuesday evening with John P: 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Wednesday evening with John A: 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Thursday afternoon with John A: 1.00pm to 3.30pm
Thursday evening with John A: 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Saturday afternoons with John P: 1.00pm to 3.30pm