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FALSGRAVE POTTERY. 
A suburb of Scarborough. It is stated in “ Memorials of Scar¬ 
borough,” by C. Meadley, published in 1890, that “ during the 
close of the 18th and the first part of the 19th century, Falsgrave 
boasted of a pottery which was situated in a field close to the then 
Horse Pond, and near the first milestone from Scarborough in 
‘ Gallows Close ’ where the North Eastern Railway now has its 
goods depot. The parties who carried on the establishment lived 
in a thatched cottage, and it formed the last house in the first row 
of houses as you entered Falsgrave from Scarborough. Either 
from the badness of the material, or from want of artistic skill, the 
productions of the pottery were so humble that it became a 
proverbial saying, when anything of a low character presented 
itself, ‘that it was like Falsgrave China, rough and ugly,—as 
coarse as Falsgrave pottery.' ” 
However this may be, there is in the Scarborough Museum a 
very fair light brown bowl banded with blue, made at the Fals¬ 
grave Pottery. Mr. W. J. Clarke, of Scarborough, tells me that 
this bowl was presented to the Scarborough Museum by Mrs. 
Skeet (nee Lacy, an old Scarborough family), and that according 
to the late James Chapman, of Scarborough, who died at an 
advanced age, the pottery was manufactured on the site where 
the North Eastern Railway goods station now stands, in the latter 
part of the 18th century. The clay for the same was brought 
from what is now Malton’s Brick Yard on the Scalby road. 
In connection with Scarborough—although in this paper I am 
not dealing with mediaeval potteries—I should just like to mention 
a large one which was there in mediaeval times, situated outside 
the boundary of the town. Mr. J. H. Hargreaves, of Scarborough, 
tells me that it was either on the site near the Roman Catholic 
church, on the ground now occupied by Wilson's Free Dwellings, 
or on that where Chapman’s Boarding House is situated. From 
the Museum reports at Scarborough it seems that there must have 
been a very extensive manufactory. Green glazed potter) 7 is 
occasionally found a few inches below the surface of the ground. 
In 1854, excavations brought to light a long series of arches 
forming what had evidently been the kilns of the pottery. The 
structure of the bricks of which they were composed being assigned 
by competent judges to belong to the 14th century. Two of these 
arches were carefully dug out and transported to the Museum, at 
