Dean was previously an official Aynsley and Belleek Retailer in the U.K. He is currently the secretary of the Aynsley Collectors’ Society.

Currently researching Aynsley retailer product catalogues from 1775 – 2026.

Aynsley China produced pattern books for their reference managed to save pattern book D which will be digitised and published shortly for subscribed members.

My mother bought a cottage garden lidded jar. She left it to me.

This started me off collecting in the year 2000 the Cottage Garden range.

I could have bought new but the prices put me off. The internet opened me up to the bargain prices. Mainly from eBay i was buying pieces for less than few pounds. Charity shops were visited offering silly cheap deals.

My collection grew to over 400 pieces it’s the new pieces I purchased from the Aynsley factory becoming an official online Aynsley China retailer. Under the brand ukchinadirect. Gavin Williamson director of Aynsley China offered me to take over the Aynsley China Collectors’ Society. Aynsley.info was started in 2001.

In 2014 the factory closed at Longton, Staffordshire. Belleek a sister company took over the brand.