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DENABY POTTERY. 
This was started as a pottery in 1864 by Wilkinson and Wardle, 
the latter being a thoroughly practical potter, previously with the 
well knowh firm of Alcocks and Co., Btirslem, Staffordshire. A 
very tine quality of the usual domestic earthenware in white, 
sponged, and printed ware was produced, but continual experi¬ 
ments in the manufacture did not conduce to commercial success, 
and the works were closed in 1870. Denaby was the most easterly 
of the south Yorkshire potteries, and was advantageously situated, 
being close to the Denaby Main Colliery, and having a siding into 
the works from the South Yorkshire, now the Great Central Rail¬ 
way Co. Distance from Mexboro’ 1 \ miles, and from Doncaster, 
5^- miles. Subsequently the pottery was converted into a bone 
and glue works, but this in turn was closed, and for many years 
no work of any kind has been carried on, and there is nothing left 
to remind one that it ever was a pottery. A few years before the 
business was discontinued, it was carried on under the style of 
“Wardle and Co.” or “John Wardle and Co.,” Mr. W. Wilkinson 
withdrawing, and a Mr. Blyth, a mining engineer, taking displace 
as a partner of Wardle, who throughout was the practical potter 
in the concern. 
Fig. 9. Plate. Mr, O. Grabham’s Collection. 
