Description
- 9 3/4 inches
- Hand Wash
- Bridgwood stopped producing bone china in 1887
‘Anchor China’ was a trade name for fine earthenware
Bridgwood Potteries
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Established c.1795 in Lane End at the market Street Works.
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In 1805 the firm is listed as Samuel Bridgwood and Son, earthenware manufacturers.
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In 1818 Maria Bridgwood and Kitty Bridgwood & Son are listed separately as earthenware manufacturers in Market Street.
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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.
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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.
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Sampson Bridgwood died in 1876.
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The business continued although the Bridgwood family were no longer involved, in 1890 John Gerrard Aynsley took over the business – the name Bridgwood & Son continued to be used.
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The company became a Limited company c.1933
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Bridgwood & Son continued until the 1990’s when it was subsumed into Churchill China PLC.
Source: The Potteries
