• NOTE: Godden records "Henry Hallen, Chesterton, Staffordshire. c.1810-c.50?, earthenware... The working period of this potter is subject to doubt"  Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, Geoffrey A. Godden,1991. 
  This is certainly incorrect and based on erroneous assumptions by a member of the Wade family in the 1930s.  

• In the middle of the 19th C the business was based in Wellington Street, Burslem. 

• A number of members of the Hallen were involved in the manufacture of earthenware  especially ceramic fittings for shuttles and textile machinery. 

• From around 1841 onwards various trade directories record a number of overlapping manufacturers: 

• In December 1843 a partnership between Samuel Hallen and Harding Hallen was mutually dissolved.

• Samuel Hallen appears to have set up manufacturing on his own account and in the 1846 William directory is listed as operating at Holehouse. 

• In August 1849 Samuel was declared insolvent on his own petition and spent some time in debtors prison at Stafford Gaol. In 1851 and 1854 a Samuel Hallen was listed as manufacturing at Sytch, Burslem.

• In October 1864 a partnership between Harding Hallen and William Henry Hallen was mutually dissolved. 

• A notice of a patent application by Harding Hallen of Wellington-street, Burslem of the invention of "improvements in pickers for looms" - March 1877.

• The firm of Henry Hallen was noted as being in the hands of executors in 1896 and 1900 Kelly directory. 

• Post 1900  the business was in the hands of a Harry Robinson Hallen who, at sometime, was (perhaps c.1905) in partnership with George Wade - the business retaining the name 'Henry Hallen'.

• In December 1907 this partnership was dissolved and all debts owing and due to be received and paid by George Wade. 

The London Gazette
1st May 1846

notice of the dissolution of the partnership between Samuel Hallen and Harding Hallen in December 1843 

The London Gazette
2nd November 1849

details of the summons of Samuel Hallen at the County Court of Staffordshire

"Samuel Hallen, late of Burslem, in the parish of Burslem, in the county of Stafford, Manufacturer of Eyes, Bevils, Weights, Washers, Guides, Creels, Warls, Cups, Balls, Tubes, Rollers, and sundry other articles made in Clay, Porcelain, Earthenware, and other matter used in and about Machinery for weaving and spinning Cotton, Woolen, Silk, and other Fibres, previously of Burslem aforesaid and county aforesaid, in lodgings, carrying on the aforesaid business on his own sole account."

The London Gazette
7th October 1864

notice of the dissolution of the partnership between Harding Hallen and William Henry Hallen

The London Gazette
16th March 1877

notice of a patent application by Harding Hallen of Wellington-street, Burslem of the invention of "improvements in pickers for looms"  

The London Gazette
17th Jan 1908

notice of the dissolution of the partnership between 
Harry Robinson Hallen and George Wade

The Pottery Gazette
1st February 1908

"HALLEN HENRY (Harry Robinson Hallen and Geo. Wade), Burslem, earthenware manufacturers. Dec 26. Debts by G. Wade. (Jan.17.)