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FGVW - About the Woods - Gledhow Hall - The Burmantofts Bathroom (397 words) |
 | It was Leeds dignitary James Kitson who commissioned the impressive hand-painted Burmantofts "faience" tile bathroom for Gledhow Hall in 1885. |
| Burmantofts faience glazes were all lead based and allowed for a range of colours. |
| Burmantofts employed a variety of potters who came from other potteries to work at the factory. |
| Burmantofts Pottery (384 words) |
| Burmantofts Pottery, as it is usually known, was only actually called Burmantofts for a very short period of the ninety-nine year that the company was producing ceramics. |
| Originally established by William Wilcock and John Lassey, it was set up in the Burmantofts district of Leeds, Yorkshire in 1845. |
| Early Burmantofts pottery was quite plain; typically bulbous vases, often with long slender necks. |
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