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Shanko
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Another request for where to look, I have another ancestor who started up the Lambeth Pottery in High Street Lambeth. He had the name Jas. Stiff & Sons manufacturers of Stoneware and Terra-Cotta, has anyone have any of these old photos they could possibly send me or know where I could get them from?
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Cougar
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This is the only reference I could find
The White Family
Rich's Buildings, Redcross Street (1829-39) and Millpond Street, Baptist Mills (1839-90). The site in Millpond Street was originally a brass works and was started in 1702 by Abraham Darby, who later went on to pioneer improved iron making in Shropshire. It was later owned by the Bristol Brass Company, who abandoned manufacture in 1814, but continued to own the premises until the 1830s. The Redcross Street site it listed as having been been owned by John Ellis between 1853 and 1870, but was taken over by the Victoria Pottery Co. Ltd. in 1865, and is not mentioned in their 1868 accounts, so it must have closed by then. J White appears to have been retailing at Rich's Buldlings, Redcross Street from 1830 to 1851.
Joseph White was originally a tobacco pipe manufacturer and until 1837 also had a china and Staffordshire warehouse. Between 1842-46 he also made yellow ware and black Egyptian. William White, a relative, continued the warehouse, also making black and Rockingham teapots, stone jugs, and fire clay chimney pots. He is mentioned until 1852. Joseph White's sons Joseph junior and James started potting in 1829 and may have retired in 1855. other family members then took over, with executors running the business from 1875-90. In 1834 Joseph White insuranced a house, communicating with his business, in the tenure of a baker; two tenements in New Street; plus the "Rising Sun" in Wade Street.
According to Pountney the sons left Redcross Street following a dispute with the landlord, who was also their. father, and moved to Millpond Street. They invented a body to make the black Egyptian teapots. They also made stoneware jugs, mugs, etc.; Rockingham teapots; mazarine blue ware; and for a short time lustre ware. They used the large water mill to make the "Bristol Stoneware Glaze", which they supplied to potters in London, including Doulton and Stiff at Lambeth. Doulton would later develop their own clear glaze. An insurance policy of 1846 shows ownership of the Millpond Street site in the hands of Joseph White senior, with Joseph White Junior as a tenant. In 1851 the pottery employed 95 persons. The Corporation of Bristol later bought the mill and demolished it, because it was causing flooding of the river Froom.
F J White is mentioned as a red ware potter at Ridgeway Lane, Fishponds, in 1885. According to Pountney he was a relative of the White family and left Bristol in 1893, with his son, to start a stoneware pottery at Denver, Colorado, where in died in December 1919.
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Researching STANLEY, EWENS, BARBER, WOOD, WHILLANCE, ROSSER,REYNOLDS, SPILLER This information is Crown Copywrite. from the www.national archives.go.v.uk. |
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Shanko
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JDG
Thanks for that I have emailed the Vauxhall Society 
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