Swinton Pottery

Biography:

Swinton Pottery was a small concern using locally available clay and coal to make brick, tile and coarse domestic earthenware pottery. The first recorded owner is Joseph Flint, who in the 1740s paid rent to the first Marquis of Rockingham for digging clay and renting a brickworks. The works steadily expanded under subsequent owners, including William Malpass. In 1785 the then partners Bingley Wood and Co went into partnership with the Leeds Pottery. Trading as Greens, Bingley and Co, this partnership was dissolved in 1806 and the pottery was taken over by the Brameld family. Following bankruptcy in 1825, the pottery was rescued by the landlord, Earl Fitzwilliam, and was renamed The Rockingham Works in 1826. The works finally closed in 1842.