1864 Denaby Pottery

“A pottery existed south of the railway where it crossed the road at Denaby Main. It was originally built for the manufacture of fire bricks, but later produced some ‘fine quality domestic earthenware in white, sponged and printed,’ It began in 1864 and was worked by Wilkinson & Wardle. The latter came from Alcock & Company. Burslem in Staffordshire. It was the most easterly South Yorkshire pottery and lay close to the Denaby Main Colliery, with sidings into the works from the South Yorkshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway). In spite of Wardle’s practical skills as a potter it was not a commercial success. Eventually Mr. W. Wilkinson stepped out and his place was taken by Mr. Blyth a mining engineer.

It was closed down before 1870, and then became a bone and glue works. This too, folded and there is now nothing left to remind one of its origins, but a few stones.”

p.10 to 11, ‘Denaby and Cadeby Miner’s Memorial Chapel’ Pamphlet.