Re: The Leach Pottery. St Ives

by **philpot** June 24th 2023, 10:38 pm

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Leach tiles and fireplace from the Bill Ismay Collection at the Centre of Ceramic Art York

by **philpot** June 24th 2023, 10:40 pm

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Leach tiles from the Bill Ismay collection at the Centre for Ceramic Art York.

by Bildeborg June 25th 2023, 9:02 am

This story from the BBC Southwest might be of interest to someone.

"The Leach Pottery in St Ives has received £530,000 grant to help fund a revitalisation project".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9rn1qn2gvpo

Regards,

Jay.

by **philpot** June 25th 2023, 10:02 am

Thank you for that link very interesting. This made me a bit whistful to
"It said phase one of the project, which has received planning permission, would see two former buildings replaced with with new pottery training and production rooms, a learning centre, offices and a storage facility."
Knocking down the older buildings seems a bit of history lost. Probably to be replaced with Modern Boring Blandness.

by **22 Crawford St.** June 25th 2023, 12:17 pm

It's a strange comment considering how bland the front of the Existing Leach Pottery is? If this were a vets or a builders merchants you would not look at it twice as a piece of architecture, it's as dull as ditch water. It looks like my local doctor, not a world famous pottery.

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I've posted this all before, I'll try posting it again in the hope that people will at least browse the Heritage, Design & Access Statement which has been put together with care and some attention to the history and importance of the location.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/525d470ce4b00e94d089ed75/t/63dbd43b676c927e820d39c7/1675351118436/Training+and+Production+Centre_Heritage+Design+and+Access+Statement_compressed.pdf

full app including non-bland drawings and non-bland scheme.

https://www.leachpottery.com/planning-application

by **philpot** June 25th 2023, 2:32 pm

But it is what it is! The Leach Pottery. St Ives - Page 20 1f600

Buildings do NOT have to scream history just to be important It's very blandness is in stark to the vibrance of what went on inside it

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:27 pm

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Pots produced by the modern St Ives Leach Pottery. On sale at the Hepworth gallery Wakefield

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:28 pm

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Products the Modern Leach Pottery.

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:30 pm

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Products of the modern Leach pottery.

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:31 pm

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Products of the modern Leach pottery,

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:33 pm

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Products of the modern Leach pottery

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:35 pm

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Teapot from the modern Leach pottery. IT costs £100, which probably compares well with Teapot from the original standard ware range.

by **philpot** June 27th 2023, 7:37 pm

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Products from the Modern Leach Pottery,

by **studio-pots** June 29th 2023, 10:16 am

Following on from the fireplace in the Bill Ismay collection, here's the outside of a front garden wall in St. Ives a couple of weeks ago.

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by **studio-pots** June 29th 2023, 10:17 am

A couple of close ups of tiles on the garden wall.

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by **NaomiM** August 2nd 2023, 3:33 pm

Just adding a note that Bernard's 2nd wife was Laurie Cookes, 1940s-50s. According to some articles she originally joined the pottery as his pupil in 1931, although the Leach Pottery's official history page says she was employed as a shop assistant and secretary "[Bernard] then bought a caravan and toured England with Laurie Cookes in 1935. The couple settled in Dartington and built his pottery and a wooden house called 'The Cabin' in 1937." They married in 1944 and divorced in 1956 when he married Janet.

by **studio-pots** August 2nd 2023, 5:49 pm

He was a one for the ladies, that Bernard. I remember Bill telling me about a Japanese woman that hung around the pottery for a while and, of course, May Scott, who became May Davis was pursued by Bernard.

If this had happened more recently, he could have made the tabloids!!

by **NaomiM** August 4th 2023, 1:14 pm

Was Bernard Leach still using the St Ives stamp at Dartington?

by **studio-pots** August 5th 2023, 12:35 am

NaomiM wrote:Was Bernard Leach still using the St Ives stamp at Dartington?

No but I don't know how much time, if any, he spent making pots there........ better things to do. The Leach Pottery. St Ives - Page 20 1f60a

by **NaomiM** August 5th 2023, 12:42 am

by **philpot** March 25th 2024, 9:43 am

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These two are described in the Leach catalogue as Large Lidded Stewpot with lugs 3,5 pint capacity, They were £1 13 9 in the 60;s catalogue. As you can see they differ slightly in colour. Which proves that every firing was not the same. One of the rarer items nowadays I think, as they were never the most popular of items.
We have bad these for yonks. But have never really used them. Just kept them out of fascination. S'pose that is what a collector does

by **NaomiM** April 19th 2024, 2:52 pm

Copied from the Leach St Ives Facebook page, I've flipped the photo so the stamps match what you'd see on the pots. I wonder if they're also allowed to use the St Ives stamp Shock