William Wood & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

William Wood & Co

Burslem

1875

1932

 

Earthenware and china manufacturer at the Albert Street Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • The partners were William Wood and Enoch Colclough - previously they had been partners in Wiltshaw, Wood & Co.

  • William Wood produced architectural china ware including door furniture. They later (probably after 1900) produced general earthenware. 

 

Formerly: Wiltshaw, Wood & Co

 

 

 

 


advert in 1882 Keates directory

Courtesy: R. K. Henrywood, Staffordshire Potters

Albert Street Works,
Burslem,
Staffordshire Potteries

William Wood & Co

manufacturers of 

china mortice lock furniture, finger plates, shutter, drawer, and hall door knobs, door labels, sewing machine, scoop, coal vase, & other handles, bedstead knobs, castor bowls, inkstands and wells, match pots, umbrella and walking stick knobs and handles, lemon squeezers, and all kinds of ware used by brassfounders, japanners, electro-platers, &c., &c

first awards and medals at the Sydney and Adelaide Exhibition, and two second awards at the Melbourne Exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

Albert Street
Burslem 

 


Wood, Wm., and Co., earthenware 
manufacturers, china door furniture, &c,
Albert-street Works 

 

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

 

 

 


lidded container by W. Wood & Co 

photo courtesy: Paul Shephard

 

 

 

 


bowl with EPNS rim - typical of the ware produced by William Wood

this bowl has the registration number 368110
which shows that the pattern was registered on the 29th December 1900

 

 

 

     
Claret jug with an EPNS (Electro-plated nickel silver) top

 

photos courtesy: Jane Goodwin 

 


Earthenware claret jug with an EPNS lid & handle

the inscription reads:

'Won by Norrie Brown
Royal High School Games 1898'  

 


W W & Co 

photos courtesy: Hadley Kay 

 

 

 


Earthenware sugar bowl decorated with hand painted flowers


W W & Co 

initials within a Stafford Knot with
a crown above

[note that the 'Co' is missing - probably it was miss printed]

B1013 appears to be the pattern number

photos courtesy: Lisa Sullivan 


 

 

Initials and marks used on ware for identification:

 

W W & Co

initial generally inside a Stafford Knot 

 

 

printed mark without the crown: 1880-1915
W W & Co 

printed mark without the crown: 1873 - c.1898

this style of mark was used by the predecessor Wiltshaw, Wood & Co

 

 

printed mark with the crown: 1915-32

printed mark with a crown

Godden's Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks 
gives a date of 1915-32 for the marks with a crown, however
this style was certainly in use by 1898

- see the engraved inscription on the jug above - 

 

 

the registration number 247274 shows that the pattern 
was first registered on the 5th January 1895

- more on registration numbers -

 

 

 


Albert Street Works

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