Honiton Pottery Collectors' Society

Charles Collard's retirement years

Charles Collard retired in 1947 at the age of 73 and continued to produced pottery in his retirement. He fixed up a small electric kiln in his garden shed and used clay dug from his garden.

Unfortunately at about the age of eighty Collard gradually went blind. Although this was obviously a terrible blow, Collard made the best of life that he could. He kept himself as active as possible, both physically and mentally, until the day before he died at the age of ninety-five on 20 March 1969.