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YORKSHIRE POTTERIES, ETC. 
1897, when the landlord's fixtures including engines, boilers, flint 
milling plant, machinery, etc., were disposed of by public auction, 
and shortly afterwards the works and land were sold in separate 
lots, and in due time two or three streets of shops and houses were 
erected on the site of the pottery. 
The outer cases of two of the kilns nearest the canal were still 
standing in 1908, when I photographed them, having been con¬ 
verted into warehouses, etc. 
In its best days the Don Pottery probably turned out more 
goods than any other pottery in the county, except Leeds. It 
consisted of eight large kilns or ovens, namely, three “ biscuits M 
and five “ glosts." 
Formerly in Samuel Barker's time an enormous export trade 
was done with Constantinople. 
At the sale all the old models, blocks, cases, etc., which had 
made the works famous in its earlier years were sold in one lot, 
and were purchased by Mr. Bowman Heald and removed to the 
Kilnhurst Pottery. 
One of the most remarkable of the early specimens of the ware 
produced here is a jug, commonly known as the “jumper jug," 
