Tuesday Cuppa Tea, Fall Favorites, Shelley Wileman, bits and bobs!

Hello and welcome to the last Tuesday Cuppa Tea in October. Amazing! The above photo is from a 2010 Harrod's London Halloween display ...I just love this!!! Since this week contains Halloween I thought I'd include it! My niece took the photo and sent it to me.

My teacup today goes with the fall theme...a time for green leaves turning to rust and gold....This is a Wileman China teacup trio in the Empire shape with a pattern called Floral Print With Scroll...

In case you were wondering...Wileman is the precursor of Shelley China. The company was started in the mid 1800s and changed formally to Shelley China in the 1910s, when this shape was discontinued. I love the Victorian styling of the scallops, frills and designs...

The design has a pale green floral transfer which is a nice contrast to the rust scrolling and gold trim...

The Rd. refers to Registry Date, which is when the pattern...number 9109...was registered for use in 1893, but the Shelley pattern books say that the pattern number wasn't produced until 1899 and discontinued with the shape in the 1910s, although the end date is just placed as 1910s. This is the sort of china I have seen on the early seasons of Downton Abbey.  The words The Foley at the top refer to the pottery name which was taken from a district in Stoke-on-Trent. I love the fact that the company kept such marvelous records! For more info on the teacup trio click on the photos or visit Antiques And Teacups.

This post would have been done a week ago, but then I had the computer crash...thanks to a Windows update...and I couldn't get to the photos until things were back up and running again. A big fall festival around here is the Dungeness Crab And Seafood Festival in nearby Port Angeles, 15 miles down highway 101...

Right by the Coho Ferry dock from Victoria, BC Canada, which sold out the ferry 2 days in a row this year...3 trips back and forth...each carrying a total or 940 people...

Here is the map of the town...and the festival site...

Dungeness Crab is actually named for the area...specifically first being identified and classified on the Dungeness Spit by where we live....

The Dungeness spit is also the longest natural spit in the US and has a great Lighthouse. The entire spit area is now a National Wildlife refuge....

It's a 3 mile walk out to the lighthouse...but you can also arrange with the park to stay there if you would like....but back to the Crab Festival....

2 tons of crab was consumed during the 2 1/2 days of the festival...

With lots of other goodies besides crab, of course! Our kids love to visit for this! So...to tie this into tea again, I looked around and found a great recipe for Dungeness Crab Sandwiches on Zucchini Bread at a great blog called Tearoom In The Sky. Click on the photo to go visit and get the recipe!

And for those of you who don't know,  P. D. James' Death At Pemberly airs tonight, and I am very much looking forward to it. I read the book when it came out, so am interested on how it translates to TV....

You may remember on my Tuesday Cuppa Tea I told you how I love candy corn, so here was afternoon tea today...I made pumpkin spice mini cupcakes and decorated them with candy corn!

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