The Leach Pottery — Local services in St. Ives

Visited because of my fascination with the story behind the potters and the history of the Leach pottery. The history was ably described by the narrator and potter David Griffin. It is a difficult balancing act between the historic interest and the deceased potters who created the pottery and supporting the pottery and the potters involved in its continued development. There is some fabulous pottery for sale made by the current potters and other exhibitions of the pottery from past years. It is a pity that as the pottery fell into decline at various stages of its evolution, it sold off by necessity its Crown Jewels to ensure its survival but survive it did. Pieces by BL, JL, Shoji and Bill Marshall were among my favourites. I also loved the BL tiles which visitors walk over to enter the pottery itself. They are dotted around the pottery as well. Of particular interest was the struggles the pottery went through, from sourcing clay from St Just to firing the kiln and the influence that DL had on the business and the practical aspects of...

I have never visited the Leach Pottery. I lived in St Ives for some 20 years at my parents house, which is situated about 100 feet or so behind the Leach Pottery. Both of my parents are now sadly deceased, but we visited regularly and have over the past few months been engaged in clearing their property ready for sale. Throughout this whole period and after every visit Google have been kind enough to ask me for a review if the Leach Pottery. My only comment would be that parking is completely inadequate as my parents used to be driven mad by inconsiderate visitors dumping their cars in the lane next to our house. Other than that and the fact that as a teenager I used to regularly chat to Janet Leach, when she filled her Triumph GT6 up with petrol, I cannot comment.

Hopefully now that we don't visit the property quite as often the prompts for reviews...

Went on a weekday, was very quite which was nice as we didn't feel rushed, though because it is still currently a working studio you are looking around while people are working. It did feel like we was intruding so felt like we couldn't actually enjoy the museum and due to them working rather loudly it was hard to listen to the video. Even though there was lots of beautiful pieces, the video was informative and there was original part of Leach's studio there, you wouldn't spend more then 30 minutes here and not sure I would say coming today and our experience it was worth £8 each. I would recommend going if you have a spare hour but I wouldn't rush to come see it unless your a massive...