Turner, Goddard & Co

Earthenware manufacturer at the Royal Albert Pottery, Parsonage Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent

The first part of the Royal Albert Pottery was built on the south side of Parsonage Street, Tunsall by Turner, Goddard & Co. in 1866
Most of the output was white ironstone for the domestic, colonial and American market
The partners were George Wardle Turner, John Hackett Goddard, John Tomkinson and John Burgess
John H Goddard and John Burgess had previously been in partnership as Merchants in Longton under the title Goddard, Dale and Burgess.
John H Goddard was a partner in the Goldenhill Hill Colliery Company at Golden Hill near to Longton
George W Turner and John Tomkinson were also partners in Turner & Tomkinson
July 1873 - John Tomkinson retired from the business
June 1874 - the partnership was dissolved and the business closed and Alfred Meakin took the works

typical mark
on white ironstone

this mark shown in Encyclopaedia of British Pottery
and Porcelain Marks by Geoffrey Godden

the mark on this shard is most likely that of
Turner, Goddard & Co

this shard was found at a rural farm site in Northern California, US, that had known residents around 1865-1870

photo supplied by: Nathan Blunt