Antique Telephones and Rockingham Pottery
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This website is all about Collecting Telephones and Rockingham Pottery. Classic old telephones have always been one of my passions. Rockingham Pottery is just fantastic.
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I am always interested in anything to do with Rockingham Pottery Old Telephones or Antique phones.

In 1825 the trademark Rockingham porcelain first went into production. The Rockingham Pottery, near Swinton South Yorkshire England was originally established by Joseph Flint in 1745 but was later taken over by the Brameld family in 1806 with support from the Fitzwilliam family.  The pottery eventually closed in 1842.
 

 Antique and Old Telephones
All that remains of the Rockingham Pottery today is the massive Waterloo Kiln (named after the battle of the same name). Following the closure of the pottery the Kiln was used for some time as an isolation hospital, and then until 1951 as a private dwelling.  The area surrounding the kiln, including the ponds formerly used to supply water for the works, has now been converted into a small nature reserve.

My other passion is old British Bakelite telephones from the 1940's and 1950's. These classic old phones represent a golden era in telephone design. The 332 telephone is perhaps the most sought after (from the 1950's). However the newer 706 telephones from the 1960's are now becoming sought after telephone antiques.

See the following Telephone Links