Essays about North Devon Pottery

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Brannam's Birds

Three modelled (later moulded) representations of birds (all jugs) were originally depicted by Frank Carruthers Gould for Brannam's 1898 catalogue

Here be Dragons

Romantic poetry and mythology has depicted the dragon as the protestor of the dead, warning off all evil spirits. The earliest models were designed by Frederick Bowden, then by William Baron

Utility WWII regulations

In 1939 came the outbreak of war, which was soon followed by severe restrictions on production of all kinds, not least in the pottery industry, where the sale of decorated ware in the home trade was banned and output limited to a restricted "Utility" range of undecorated ware.

Brannam's Birds
	Three modelled (later moulded) representations of birds (all jugs) were originally depicted by Frank Carruthers Gould for Brannam's 1898 catalogue
Here be Dragons
	Romantic poetry and mythology has depicted the dragon as the protestor of the dead, warning off all evil spirits. The earliest models were designed by Frederick Bowden, then by William Baron
Utility WWII regulations
	In 1939 came the outbreak of war, which was soon followed by severe restrictions on production of all kinds, not least in the pottery industry, where the sale of decorated ware in the home trade was banned and output limited to a restricted "Utility" range of undecorated ware.