C Challinor & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

Charles Challinor & Co

Fenton

1892

96

 

Earthenware and Ironstone manufacturer at Fenton Potteries, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
  • Charles had been a partner in the previous company Edward & Charles Challinor.

  • He had many other business interests and also owned a nearby 'Stilt & Spur Works' and the Glebe Colliery. 
    (see biography)

  • Charles died in February 1893 following an accident involving a steam engine at Glebe Colliery, Fenton. Where he was the managing director. The Fenton Pottery business was continued by the '& Co.'

 

Formerly: E & C Challinor (1862-91)

 


platter in the aesthetic Gordon pattern

C. Challinor & Co
England

The same trade mark was used by Challinor & Mayer

 

 


 

 


wash set with hand painting and gilding

see information on Ironstone China  


Royal Ironstone China
C. Challinor & Co
England

mark using the Royal Arms

 

photos courtesy: Anita Smith 

 


 

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

 

C CHALLINOR & CO
ENGLAND


 


C. Challinor & Co
England

The same trade mark was used by Challinor & Mayer


Royal Ironstone China
C. Challinor & Co
England

mark using the Royal Arms

 

 


 

 

CHALLINOR, Charles (1829-93), colliery owner, Fenton.

CC was born in Leek on 19 July 1829, the son of William Challinor and Mary nee Shelmerdine.

His numerous business interests included the managing directorship of John Challinor and Co. Ltd., Glebe Colliery, and interests in E. and C. Challinor and Co., Fenton Pottery, Baker and Co., earthenware manufacturers, Gimson and Co., Fenton, Stilt and Spur Works, Wallace and Co., Railway Stilt Works, Charles Challinor, Pinnox Works, Tunstall (employing 3,000 people), Charles Challinor, Fenton Tileries and E. and C. Challinor, Stoke upon Trent, flint and stone mills.

 

Brick from Fenton Tileries
Brick from Fenton Tileries

 

He was a churchman and a Conservative, served as an improvement commissioner and on the Fenton Board of Health. He was a vice-president of the North Staffs. Infirmary. 

On 19 April 1855 he married Lettice Adams, daughter of William Adams of Greenfield, and had four sons and six daughters. He lived at the Lodge, Oakhill, in 1861, and later at Basford Hall. 

Charles died on 13 February 1893 at Fenton, following an accident involving a steam engine at Glebe colliery.

 


Fenton (Glebe) collieries Ltd. (1865-1964). 

This colliery derives its name from its association with the 
glebe lands of the parish church of St. Peter ad Vincula, Stoke. 
The road alongside the location of this colliery is now called Glebedale Road

 

Sources:  Adams, Notes; Staffs. Advertiser 18 February 1893; People of the Potteries

 

 


 


to the right is the Fenton Pottery

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