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HUDDERSFIELD. 
LINDLEY MOOR POTTERIES, Salendine Nook, 
More than three hundred years ago, about the time of the 
accession of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England, a numerous 
Scotch family of the name of Morton fled from Scotland to escape 
the persecution then raging against the Protestant religion in that 
country. They were potters by trade, and settled at Salendine 
Nook, in the parish of Huddersfield. They brought some work¬ 
men with them, and fetched others out of Staffordshire, and 
started a pottery business at Nook, which has been carried on in 
the district to this day. 
Two district firms of the name of Morton are still carrying on 
business. 
Some of the Mortons started a pottery at Hexley about 1868. 
Shortly afterwards they 7 went to Siddall, near Halifax, but soon 
gave up. Some of the Hallidays from the Howcans Pottery then 
took it, but after a couple of years they failed, and it was finally 
closed down about 1870. Chiefly black ware was made there. 
The Mortons, fire brick manufacturers at Siddall, are descend¬ 
ants of the original Mortons of Salendine Nook. 
The potteries at Salendine Nook are carried on as Enos Morton 
and Sons, and Joseph Morton and Sons. Brown and red ware 
are made. 
HULL POTTERY. 
Pot works are said to have existed at Hull in the middle of the 
17th century. Land at Sculcoates, formerly an outskirt of Hull, 
has always been known by the name of “ Pot House Yard." Clay 
pipe making was also carried on here. 
In 1802, a plot of land on the Humber bank, in a part of what 
was then the outskirts of the town and known as “ My 7 ton,’' was 
sold by Thomas English, of Hull, to James Smith and Jeremiah 
Smith, both of Hull, potters ; Job Ridgway, of Shelton, Stafford¬ 
shire, potter ; and Josiah Hipwood, of Hull, blockmaker. That 
part of the town for many years was known as the “ Pottery ” a 
name doubtless derived from these works. In 1806 the pro¬ 
prietors assigned all their interest in the works to Messrs. Job 
and George Ridgway, who carried them on for some years. 
