The Leach Pottery. St Ives

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.

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

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.

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!!

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

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.