Watcombe Pottery
1876 'Mr. Brook, the chief manager and organiser of the now celebrated Watcombe Pottery'[1]
1885 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, William Ball the younger and Frank Ridout Evans, carrying on business as Terra Cotta Manufacturers and Merchants and General Potters, at Watcombe, Torquay, in the county of Devon, and at Saint Andrew-street, Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of the Watcombe Pottery Company, Messrs. Ball and Evans, Proprietors, was dissolved on the 19th day of November instant by mutual consent. All debts due and owing to and by the said firm will be received and paid by the said Frank Ridout Evans, who will in future carry on the said business on his own account...'[2]
1886 'A trade mark, Class 16, was registered for the Watcombe Pottery Company, St. Mary Church'[3]
1900 Bankrupt. Frank Ridout Evans, the Watcombe Pottery, St. Marychurch, trading as Evans and Co. [4]
Became the Royal Aller Vale and Watcombe Pottery Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Royal Cornwall Gazette - Saturday 17 June 1876
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:24 November 1885 Issue:25533 Page:5549
- ↑ Western Times - Monday 21 June 1886
- ↑ Teignmouth Post and Gazette - Friday 18 May 1900