1940’s Pair of Porcelain Burleigh Ware (Burgess & Leigh) Bowls Collectables Diameter of body: 4

Diameter of body: 4

The firm became Barker Bros

Stamped underneath Burleigh Made in England Zenith Reg

Salt & Nixon manufactured from 1897 in the Longton area of Staffordshire and used the Staffordshire knot above a shield with their initials until 1904

Diameter of rim: 3

1940’s Pair of Porcelain Burleigh Ware (Burgess & Leigh) Bowls Collectables Diameter of body: 4In 1851 Hulme and Booth began the pottery business in Burslem, Stoke On Trent. In 1862 William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess in partnership took over the firm and moved it to Middelport Pottery at the Trent and Mercy Canal where it is located to this day. After the sons Edmund Leigh and Richard Burgess continued the firm, in 1912 the Leigh family took sole control and at the start of the 20th century the firm became known as Burleigh. In the