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W H Grindley was an English pottery company that made earthenware and ironstone tableware, including flow blue. The company was founded in 1880 by William Harry Grindley, JP (b. 1859) of Tunstall , Stoke-on-Trent.
The Crambeck Ware industry is one of two major pottery industries located in the Yorkshire region during the Roman period [4] (the other being Huntcliff ware).Very little Crambeck Ware is found south of the Humber, [4] though it does advance North to the frontier.
The origins of Mason Cash can be traced back to a pottery already operating at Church Gresley around 1800. [4] The location was selected due to the local deposits of clay and coal. [1] Mason Cash ceramic items were made from ‘white and cane’ glazed earthenware sometimes known as ‘yellow ware’ due to the colour of the local clay ...
It is claimed that the same premises operated as a pottery from c. 1770 until the last business, Clokie & Co, closed in 1961. [5] The "Pottery River", an ox-bow branch of the River Calder, gave easy access to barges. The sculptor Henry Moore, who came from Castleford, attended pottery painting classes in the town in the 1920s. [6]
James Sadler and Sons Ltd was a pottery manufacturer founded in 1882 by James Sadler in Burslem, ... Street-Porter, Janet The British teapot Angus & Robertson, 1981
Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) [1] was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist.Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery.
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Alfred Meakin Ltd Pottery was a British company that produced earthenware and semi-porcelain tableware, tea sets, and toilet ware from 1875 to 1976. [1] The company was founded by Alfred Meakin, the brother of James and George Meakin who ran a large pottery company in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.