Buckley Society DVD: Working Life in a Buckley Pottery featuring John Jonathan"

Buckley

2010

see also 227.2

COVER TEXT

Working Life in a Buckley Pottery

Featuring the reminiscences of

Mr. John Jonathan

Interviewed by P.G. Davies

Filmed and edited by Inventive Video Productions

www.buckleysociety.org.uk

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BACK COVER

The Town of Buckley in Flintshire, North Wales is renowned

for its past clay industries. A geological fault through the

mountain on which the town is situated exposed clay which

small cottage industries and major manufacturers exploited

to produce a wide range of highly sought after products.

Small family run potteries operated in and around the town

for over six hundred years until the start of the Second World

War. Mr. John Jonathan left school in 1931 to work in one

of the last such potteries to produce traditional Buckley

slipware.

Now in his nineties, as far as can be established Mr. Jonathan

is the last person still surviving with experience of working in

the Buckley pottery industry.

Through a series of recorded interviews Mr. Jonathan

describes his daily work life at Hayes' Pottery in Etna Road,

Buckley and processes that had changed little since the

original business was founded nearly two centuries earlier.

£8.00

www.inventivevideoproductions.co.uk

TV system - PAL

Run Time Approx. 45 mins

Front cover photograph courtesy of Mrs. E. Jones

Author: Buckley Society