Sampson Bridgwood and Son
of Anchor Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs
c.1795 Business established in Lane End at the market Street Works.
1805 the firm is listed as Samuel Bridgwood and Son, earthenware manufacturers.
1818 Maria Bridgwood and Kitty Bridgwood and Son are listed separately as earthenware manufacturers in Market Street.
Later the works passed to Sampson Bridgwood who continued the business in Market Street and then in Stafford Street - the works were later demolished to make way for Longton covered market.
Sampson Bridgwood then took over the Anchor Pottery (at the corner of Wharf and Goddard Street) in 1853 where bone china and later, earthenware was made.
1876 Sampson Bridgwood died.
The business continued although the Bridgwood family were no longer involved
1887 Ceased making china, continued with earthenware. Although the company ceased producing china they continued to use trade-names such as semi-porcelain, porcelaine opaque and limoges for their earthenwares.
1890 John Gerrard Aynsley took over the business - the name Bridgwood & Son continued to be used.
1933 The company became a Limited company
1947 Advert in British Industries Fair Catalogue as Exhibiting Member of the British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation of Federation House, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Composite Exhibit. (Pottery and Glassware Section - Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1199) [1]
1990s Bridgwood & Son was subsumed into Churchill China PLC.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair Adverts 398 and 399; and p38
- [1] The Potteries Website