Brown & Steventon Ltd

Brown & Steventon Ltd

Location and period of operation:

Brown & Steventon Ltd

Burslem

1897

1923

Earthenware manufacturer at the Royal Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

The partners were William J. Brown, John Steventon and W. Lees.
John Steventon moved from Shropshire to Stoke-on-Trent and worked at Shelton Iron & Steel. By 1890 his profession is listed as a China Decorator on the birth certificate of one of his children. In the 1901 census he is recorded as an earthenware manufacturer.
c.1913 the company was incorporated as a Limited Partnership.
1923 William Brown retired from the business which became Steventon & Sons.

Subsequently Steventon & Sons Ltd.

Brown and Steventon,
earthenware, toilet and
dinner ware manufacturers,
Royal Pottery

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

Brown & Steventon, Royal Pottery, Market Place, Burslem

The Latest Novelty in Divided Vegetable Dishes

"Manufacturers of General Earthenware in White Spiral, Plain White, and a variety of shapes and decorations. Specialities -Dinner Sets, Toilet sets, Trinket Sets, Flower Pots, Sets of Jugs, Tea Ware".

The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review
October 1911

serving dish in the Willow pattern