Potash Farm, Norfolk
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1849
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
214 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341492
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Potash Farm, Norfolk, Staffordshire Pottery. A Staffordshire model of Potash Farm. Potash Farm was the home of the murderer James Blomfield Rush. On the evening of 28 November 1848 James Blomfield Rush shot Isaac Jermy dead on the porch of Stanfield Hall, he then entered the house and shot dead Jermy's son, Isaac Jermy Jermy, and subsequently wounded the son's wife, Sophia Jane, and Eliza Chastney, the chambermaid. Father and son were buried in Wymondham churchyard on 5 December. Rush was convicted and hanged before Norwich Castle on 14 April 1849 in one of the last public executions outside London. Special excursion trains were laid on for people to attend.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
POTASH FARM (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter