Neale Harrison & Co., were pottery decorators at the Swan Works, Elm Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

(NOTE: sometimes incorrectly recorded as "Neale, Harrison & Co." as though Neale and Harrison were two people) 

• Neale Harrison (b.1850 d.1918) was a member of the 'Harrison' family of the potters colours and glazes manufacturing fame. 
  
  - see Harrison & Son    

• Neale lived at 21 Bath Street, Hanley, with his older brother (Thomas William Harrison) and learned the art of making colours and glazes.

• At about age 21 he persuaded his father and older brother to set him up with is own business. They helped set him up with the purchase of the Swan Works in nearby Elm Street. Here he operated as a pottery decorator. His brother Thomas was a partner. 

• Neale Harrison married and about 1874 he and his wife emigrated to Melbourne, Australia where he acted as an agent for the family colour & glaze business.

• Thomas Harrison kept an eye on the Elm Street business, the partnership between the two brothers as 'Neale Harrison & Co' was dissolved in 1882 and Thomas continue it on his own.

• In 1885 Thomas and his father agreed that keeping the Elm Street business was not a sensible option and it was sold.     

Neale Harrison in Australia: 

In March 1886 Thomas Retchford and Neale Harrison, both Importers, and Charles Stanway, a Salesman, all of Melbourne, purchased 14 acres of land in the eastern suburb of Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. 

They subdivided the land, calling it the Carrington Estate (a British official of this name landed in Australia at this time, to become a State Governor, this is probably where the estate name came from.) 

The four streets that were laid out were: Clifton, Edinburgh, Stanley and Swan. The names Stanley and Swan were likely contributed by Neale Harrison from his time in England before he emigrated to Australia - he operated the Swan Works and the Stanley Mill in Stoke-on-Trent, England. 

Three months later, Retchford gave up the land, leaving Harrison and Stanway as the owners.

Information courtesy: Box Hill Historical Society.