• In 1880 Wagstaff & Brunt started business as earthenware and china manufacturers at Edensor Road, Longton. 

• Around 1887 they moved to King Street Pottery, Longton. 

• At least by 1899 they were described as 'China and Earthenware Merchants, at Richmond Pottery' The partners were Peter Wagstaff (who died in 1899) and John Brunt the younger. After the death of Peter Wagstaff the business was continued by John Brunt and retained the name 'Wagstaff & Brunt' 

• Colin Mosley Brunt operated as a hay and straw merchant in Lytton Street, Stoke. Peter Wagstaff and John Brunt had an interest as the '& Co'. 

• Some reference books give a 1880 to 1927 as a date range when Wagstaff & Brunt were manufacturers. However a 1899 London Gazette entry, a 1907 directory and 1908 advert all describe them as merchants. 

• Wagstaff & Brunt had ware produced on their behalf with the marking 'Wagstaff & Brunt' 

• The business continued until 1980 when Wagstaff & Brunt Ltd was wound up.  

Wagstaff and Brunt shared the works with pottery manufacturers - the following are known:

• 1907 -               Radcliffe & Co, earthenware manufacturers 

• 1922-c.1946 -     Bradleys (Longton) Ltd as china manufacturers at the Crown Clarence Works

• 1947 - 1971        Co-operative Wholesale Society's Crown Clarence Pottery (earthenware)   

from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

The London Gazette
 January 1900 

Notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
Colin Mosley Brunt and John Brunt the younger 
and the late Peter Wagstaff (as Hay & Straw Merchants)

The business was continued by 
Colin Mosley Brunt and John Brunt 

Wagstaff & Brunt, 
china & earthenware merchants 

LONGTON
China, Glass & Warthenware merchants 
Wagstaff & Brunt, Church Street

Wagstaff
&
Brunt
Longton
Made in
England

He was evidently the son of the Robert Garner who had been an apprentice to Thomas Whieldon at Fenton and later worked with the Barkers near the Foley. (fn. 501) His son, also Robert (born 1766), still held the works in 1821. (fn. 502) 

The works has been rebuilt and is now (1960) occupied by the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Crown Clarence Pottery (earthenware) and by Messrs. Wagstaff and Brunt, china and earthenware dealers, who were there as china and earthenware manufacturers by the 1880's. (fn. 503) The house was the home of Charles Harvey, banker and former potter, by the late 1820's (fn. 504) but is no longer standing."

Source: 'Longton', in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8, ed. J G Jenkins (London, 1963), pp. 224-246. 

References:

500. Mankowitz and Haggar, Eng. Pottery, 94; Shaw, Staffs. Potteries, 174; Jewitt, Ceramic Art, 559–60, identifying Robt. Garner of Bank House and Robt. Garner of Fenton as the same man.
501. See p. 217.
502. Mankowitz and Haggar, Eng. Pottery, 94; Meigh, 'Staffs. Potters', 84.
503. Kelly's Dir. Staffs. (1884).
504. Shaw, Staffs. Potteries, 77.