YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, POTS, 
AND POTTERS. 
BRADSHAW HEAD POTTERY. 
Situated near Denholme, this pottery was started about the 
year 1835, by two Catheralls, grandsons of old Jonathan Catherall, 
of the Soil Hill Pottery. It was closed down for good after work¬ 
ing for two years. 
BURMANTOFTS POTTERY. 
Clay goods were first made at these works in the year 1858, 
and previous to this coal and ironstone mining was carried on. 
Burmantofts Pottery was quite unknown up to as recently as 1882. 
The Burmantofts Works, near Leeds, now the property of the 
Leeds Fire-clay Co. Ltd., were up to that time principally engaged 
in the production of salt-glazed sanitary pipes, fire-bricks and 
quarries, salt-glazed bricks, etc. Mr. R. Bond, the works manager, 
who has very kindly given me all the information in his power 
about these works, tells me that the year 1882 saw the first 
attempted production of pottery, and art pottery in its best sense. 
From the beginning the greatest care was exercised in order to 
ensure accuracy of work produced on the thrower’s wheel, the out¬ 
line of each article receiving most careful attention before it was 
permitted to go to the hands of the operator. The effect of this 
great care was soon evidenced by the demand from the important 
firms in the trade for this ware. 
Burmantofts Pottery found its way into the best houses, and 
was called for from all parts of the world. Probably the out¬ 
standing feature from the artistic point of view was the purity of 
the three principal colours produced, viz. : Persian blue, orange 
yellow, and sang-de-Boeuf. In addition to these however, there 
