Originally the partnership with Absalom Wood had also included James Rathbone operating as Wood, Rathbone & Co. 

Absalom Wood was a descendant of the Moses Wood branch of the Wood family of potters.  

In November 1868 Rathbone left and the business became Wood, Son & Co. 

The partners of Wood, Son & Co. were Absalom Wood and his son Thomas Francis Wood along with William Dunn and Enoch Colclough. 

In October 1877 William Dunn and Enoch Colclough left the business. 

In the same year a manufacturing site was purchased in Navigation Road and in 1878/9 the business moved there as New Wharf Pottery Co.