• The partners were Sampson Hamilton and Samuel Moore.

• In 1851 they employed 99 people. 

• In November 1858 Hamilton left the partnership which was continued by Samuel Moore

Scriven's Report on Child Labour in the pottery industry (published 1843)  places the works of Hamilton & Moore in the second class of manufactory:

"The second class form by far the most numerous, and are of greater or less extent, having from 50 to 800 hands engaged; most of them have been erected many years, and as the trade has increased, so the rooms appear to have increased m a corresponding ratio. 

Some here and there, upon, around, and about the first premises, so that there is neither order; regularity, nor proportion; the consequence of this is, that men, women, and children are to be seen passing in and out, to and fro, to their respective departments all hours of the say, no matter what the weather, warm, cold, wet, or dry; the rooms, with very few exceptions; are either low, damp, close, small, dark, hot, dirty, ill ventilated, or unwholesome, or have all these disadvantages."

For additional information on Hamilton & Moore see: 

                Hamilton & Moore on the Printed British Pottery site and see: Hamilton & Moore patterns