Brough Brothers (& Co)






 

Location and period of operation:

Brough Brothers (& Co)

Longton

c.1865

July 1870

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Gold Street Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

  • The names of the Brough brothers who started the business is uncertain. 

  • In July 1870 the partnership was dissolved. At that time the partners were Benjamin Hyde Brough, James Abberley and Thomas Lowe. 

  • Thomas Lowe and James Abberley were also operating together as Lowe & Abberley at the nearby Waterloo Works. The Lowe & Abberley partnership was dissolved on the same day as the Brough Bros partnership. James Abberley continued at the Waterloo Works on his own and Thomas Lowe continued at the Gold Street Works on his own account. 

  • Benjamin Hyde Brough was also in business with other partners at the Waterloo Works. 

 




Brough Brothers & Compy.,
General Earthenware manufacturers,
for home and exportation,
Gold Street Works,
Longton, Staffordshire 

advert from the 1869 Keates directory

Courtesy: Dick Henrywood, Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900  

 

 

The London Gazette
  8th July 1870


notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
Brough, Abberley & Lowe.
Thomas Lowe to continue on own account 

 

 

 


transferware plate in the GORDON pattern

this pattern is in the aesthetic style

it appears that Brough Brothers almost exclusively 
produced ware in the Gordon pattern  


B. Bros

'GORDON' is the pattern name 

 

 

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