CASTLEFORD POTTERY. 
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Waterside Pottery was built as a stoneware pottery by John 
Bateson about 1840, lie was a great uncle to the present Messrs. 
Harry and Frank Bateson, who are still carrying on the business. 
This is the largest pottery in Burton. 
The stoneware potteries manufacture bottles, cooking pots, 
jam jars, etc. 
CASTLEFORD POTTERY. 
This pottery was established about 1780 by David Dunderdale, 
of whom the best description is given by Archdeacon H. A. Hall, 
B.D.,* as follows: David Dunderdale was born at the “ Crosse,” 
Briggate, Leeds, on January gth, 1772, and was baptised at St. 
John's on the 21st of February. He could not have been more 
than twenty years of age when he embarked upon the venture at 
Castleford, for in 1796 a pattern book was issued—not necessarily 
the first—of which a copy was exhibited by Mr. Richard Wilson, 
of Armley, near Leeds, at the Old Leeds Exhibition, held at the 
City Art Gallerv, from July 24th to September 24th, 1908. 
This pattern book is in French and Spanish, the title page 
running :— 
“ Desseins des pieces de Favence fabriquees a Castleford 
Pottery pres de Leeds par Dd. Dunderdale et Co. 
Dibuxos de las piezas de Lozaque se fabrican a Castleford 
Pottery cerca de Leeds par Dd. Dunderdale y Co. 
1796.” 
Of this pattern book it is sufficient to say that it is a colourable 
imitation, so far as size and general idea are concerned, of the 
Leeds books, but the drawing and production are very inferior. 
It contains fifty-seven pages of designs and seven pages of indices, 
but unfortunately there is no descriptive letterpress. The factor) 7 
certainly prospered for a time. Dunderdale took into partnership 
a Mr. Plowes, who however deserted to Ferrybridge, and subse¬ 
quently Thos. Ed. Upton, Thos Russell— a Harrogate innkeeper— 
and John Bramley, who was probably a relative of his wife, whose 
maiden name was Ann Bramley. He lived at Dunford House, 
*Vide “ Handbook of the Old Leeds Exhibition, 1908,” p. 39, et seq., “The 
greater part of the very fine collection of David Dunderdale’s Ware, got together 
by Archdeacon Hall, has been acquired by Mr. Arthur Hurst, East Lodge, St. 
Peter’s Grove, York, and through the kindness of that gentleman is now on view 
in the York Museum.” 
