Bennett Pottery history

Bennett’s  pottery, founded in 1887 and today still operated on the same site by the Bennett family, was well established in the early 20th century as a maker of earthenware jugs, bread crocks, stoneware jars and other domestic wares. The commencement of Bennett’s art-ware manufacture is associated with the arrival in the 1920s of pattern-maker Thomas Holford and glaze specialist Jack Gare, the latter having been sacked by Bendigo pottery for not disclosing his glaze recipes. 
    Manufacture of art pottery ceased at Bennett’s after a disastrous fire in 1940.
 
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Right, Bennett’s pottery about 1890. Click image to enlarge.

(Courtesy Ken Arnold, Collecting Australian Found Stoneware (Crown Castleton Publishers, Australia, 1989)

Right, Bennett’s pottery incised mark c 1935. Click image to enlarge.