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The
family portrait shows Leonard
(top left), Wilfred (top right)
and Peter (bottom left). The
picture must have been taken in
about 1947. Wilfred is holding a
pipe.
So
what happened to Thomas,
Leonard’s brother -- the boy who
refused to go into the factory?
Well, he didn’t escape the
ceramic industry altogether. He
worked in the Sales Department
of Barratt’s of Burslem. (Barratt’s
of Staffordshire). A great deal
of their output was sold in the
United States.
James Ferneyhough, the founder
of the factory, expressed his
feelings about his son’s
desertion of the business in his
will. He left everything to
Leonard. Thomas was left only a
long case clock. |
