Burleigh Pottery

In July 1851, "Hulme & Booth" founded a business manufacturing earthenware in the centre of the "Mother Town" of The Potteries, Burslem. Little is known about the lives of these two men, but the company was successful for over a decade. This pottery produced earthenware until 1862 when Mr William Leigh and Mr Frederick Rathbone Burgess formed a partnership and took over the running of the central pottery. The business moved to Middleport Pottery by the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1889, where you will find us today. Following the deaths of William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, the business continued with the support of their sons, Edmund Leigh and Richard Burgess. The Leigh family took sole control of the business in 1912 when Richard Burgess passed away. During the 20th Century, Burgess and Leigh became known as "Burleigh". Following difficult conditions in the 90s, the Dorling family purchased the business and a new era of family ownership began. In 2010, Burleigh was acquired by Denby Holdings Limited. A year later, The Prince of Wales stepped in to help with emergency repair works needed at Middleport Pottery, his charity, HRH The Princes Regeneration Trust, offered the nine million pound support that we needed to keep production going.

Quoted from burleigh1851.com, in Burleigh Pottery's own words. We have not edited it and we do not vouch for it.