Winkle & Wood




 

Location and period of operation:

Winkle & Wood 

Fenton/Stoke

1888

Sept 1889

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Colonial Pottery, Whieldon Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • A business between Winkle and Wood started in 1885 at the Pearl Pottery in Hanley.

  • In 1888 Frederick Winkle and William Wood jointly opened the purpose built Colonial Pottery Works in Whieldon Road close to the border between Stoke and Fenton.

  • There must have been a significant disagreement between the two because in September 1889 the partnership was dissolved and Frederick Winkle continued on his own at the Colonial Pottery and William Wood continued at the Pearl Pottery works, Hanley.

 

 

Previously: Winkle and Wood (at the Pearl Pottery, Hanley)

Subsequently: F Winkle & Co (Frederick Winkle continued at the Colonial Pottery)

Subsequently: Wood & Bennett (William Wood reverted back to the Pearl Pottery)

 

 

 


London Gazette
15 October 1889 


Notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
Frederick Winkle and William Wood

 

 


moulded plate in the transferware Moorland pattern 

The pattern features a transfer-printed design in brown-red, depicting wading birds in a natural setting. The rim shows birds in panels between shaped panels of foliate scrolls


W & W
STOKE

 80531 shows that the shape was registered on the 10th September 1887 to Winkle & Wood at the Pearl Pottery, Hanley

121720 shows that the pattern was registered on the 19th March 1889 to Winkle & Wood at the Colonial Pottery, Stoke

 

 

 

Initials and names used on ware for identification:

W. W.

W & W 
STOKE


 

 

 


The Colonial Pottery

Winkle and Wood's factory was situated alongside the Trent and Mersey canal 
In the foreground is Whieldon Road.

 

1893 trade journal article on Winkle

 

 

Related pages..


Winkle & Wood's Colonial Pottery

Mount Pleasant! The very name evokes Englishness with a tinge of Norman chivalry sufficient to enchant the imagination back to baronial times, castle-keeps and sheriffs, pastoral landscapes, parish lore, and village peace.

Grove Road, Heron Cross, Great Fenton - Early potters walked the track from Lower Lane to Lane Delph:
It is not at all fanciful to speculate that a number of famous and early potters journeyed along the track which is today known as Whieldon Road, Grove Road and Duke Street.

Thomas Whieldon 1719-1795 a Master Potter who influenced and taught the famous potters Ralph & Aaron Wood and Josiah Spode. He was in partnership with Josiah Wedgwood. 

 

 

Questions, comments,  contributions?  email: Steve Birks

 

 


Page History:

Page created 19 March 2018

Last updated 19 November 2025: Details of the subsequent businesses added.