No. 1. The David Sharp Pottery David Sharp started work as an apprentice with Rye Pottery just after the War. He worked with Raymond Everett and Dennis Townsend, all who later branched out on their own.
Tag: Dennis Townsend
This Rye’s Own collection brings together articles connected with Dennis Townsend, drawing news, memories and magazine features into one path through the archive. The trail includes “The Potters of Rye”, “1832 Reform Map of Rye to be Auctioned Locally”, and “A Potted History of the Rye Potteries.”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. It is a collection to browse for both the main story and the small, telling details that a local magazine notices.
1832 Reform Map of Rye to be Auctioned Locally
The map of Rye above is but the central section of of a steel engraving from Samuel Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary reflecting the boundary changes introduced on the enactment of the Reform Bill of June 7th. 1832.
The Potters of Rye
Walter Cole By A. G. Page The life of Walter Cole the Potter is fairly decisively divided into two parts. Before the War he built a reputation in London as one of the few British specialists in stoneware. whose popularity, in the sophisticated thirties, had declined because