Brough & Blackhurst

Location and period of operation:

  Earthenware manufacturer at the Waterloo Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

 

"Waterloo Works - built in Stafford Street [Longton] in 1815, the year of the Battle of Waterloo, and in honour of that event named the Waterloo Works. At these works, which were large and commodious, were produced by Brough & Blackhurst the ordinary classes of earthenware, enamelled and gilt service and the like, suitable both for the home and foreign markets. Messrs. Brough & Blackhurst worked the Waterloo pottery from 1872 to 1895." Jewitt - 'Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900'

 

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Brough & Blackhurst
Waterloo Works, Longton

 The Pottery Gazette, American and Canadian Edition, January 1st 1880

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Brough & Blackhurst plate in the RHINE pattern

Marks used on ware for identification:

Brough & Blackhurst
LONGTON

RHINE is the pattern name

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