• The partners were Samuel Elkin and Thomas & William Newbon.

• From the 1851 census:

• they employed 40 men, 15 women, 30 boys, and 25 girls

• William Newbon age 45, living at 55 New Street, born Longton

• Thomas Newbon age 42, living at 45 Edensor Place, born Longton

• In November 1852 Thomas Newbon left the business

• Around 1855/6 Samuel continued on his own account.  

platter in the Chinese Villa pattern 

this platter was handed down through a descendant of the Newbon family

 E. N. & N. 

probably Elkin, Newbon & Newbon

platter in the Botanical Beauties pattern 

a series of patterns with stylised flowers as a central motif 
within a border of flower sprays on a stippled ground

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