Pinder, Bourne & Co






 Location and period of operation:

Pinder Bourne & Co

Burslem

Jan 1862

1882

 

   Earthenware manufacturer at Nile Street Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

  • The Partners were Thomas Shadford Pinder and Joseph Harvey Bourne.

  • Thomas Pinder had previously operated from the Swan Bank Works from 1848 and the Fountain Place Works from c.1852 - in 1851 he was joined by two partners and they operated as Pinder, Bourne and Hope (Thomas Pinder, Joseph Harvey Bourne, John Hope).

  • In 1860 they moved to the already existing Nile Street Works. 

  • In 1862 Mr. Hope left the partnership and stayed at the Fountain Place Works - the Nile street works continued as Pinder, Bourne & Co.

  • At some time Joseph Bourne left the business. 

  • The '& Co' were John Harris and Ernest Joban Berg.

  • In 1877 notice for liquidation by arrangement was made by Thomas Shadford Pinder, John Harris and Ernest Joban Berg  co-partners of Pinder, Bourne & Co. 

  • In 1877 Henry Doulton, of the Lambeth (London) pottery company Doulton & Co., was approached by Pinder, proposing he become a partner in the firm of Pinder, Bourne and Co for an outlay of £12,000 but the money was unwisely spent and differences of opinion caused such a rift between the two concerns that only arbitration could resolve the matter.

  • Pinder retired and and Henry Doulton continued with the business. 

  • Also in 1877 Henry Doulton was knighted, a few years later he was awarded the Albert Medal by the Royal Society of Arts.

  • The name of Pinder, Bourne & Co. continued to be used until 1882 when it became Doulton & Co. Ltd.

 

Previously: Pinder, Bourne and Hope

Subsequently: Doulton & Co 

 

 


 

 

Rudyard Kipling's father - Lockwood Kipling pursued a career as artist and craftsman. He was taken on as an apprentice by Pinder, Bourne & Co., the earthenware manufacturers of Burslem in Staffordshire, while concurrently studying (and winning prizes) at Stoke and Fenton School of Art. After two years working in London and elsewhere for an architectural sculptor, he joined the Department of Science and Art at South Kensington. It was during his four years with the Department that, going to and fro between London and the Potteries, he met Frederic Macdonald and became engaged to Alice. Rudyard Kipling was born to Alice and Lockwood in India.
In 1863 Lockwood Kipling and Robert Edgar were awarded joint first prize in the competition for the design of the facade and elevation of the Wedgwood Memorial Institute in Burslem

Rudyard Kipling was named after a lake and beauty spot near Stoke-on-Trent called Rudyard Lake  

 

 


 

London Gazette, 
January 14, 1862

notice of the dissolution of the partnership of Pinder, Bourne and Hope on the 13th January 1862

 

Thomas Pinder and Joseph Harvey Bourne continued at the Nile Street Works as Pinder, Bourne & Co

John Hope was joined in partnership with John Carter and they continued at the Fountain Place Works as Hope & Carter

London Gazette, 
September 1877

notice for liquidation by arrangement by
Thomas Shadford Pinder, John Harris and
Ernest Joban Berg 
co-partners of Pinder, Bourne & Co

 

 



 

 

Pinder, Bourne & Co
Burslem

The Pottery Gazette, American and Canadian Edition, January 1st 1880

 



A Pinder, Bourne & Co design 'Marina'
registerd on the 8th September 1969

the design is kept in the National Archives

 


 

 


plate in the Dresden pattern- based on the popular Indian Tree pattern 

this pattern was started by Pinder, Bourne & Hope and continued by Doulton & Co  


Dresden
P B & Co

 


 

 


white ironstone jug

Stone China
Pinder, Bourne & Co
Burslem

the mark incorporates the Royal Arms 

   

photos courtesy: Lyn Cossor 

 




moulded flow blue style jug 

Pinder, Bourne & Co

the mark includes a registration diamond
although the heavy glaze makes it impossible to read

 

 


 


polychrome plate in the Beauvais pattern  

brown transferware meat platter
 in the Beauvais pattern  

P.B.  & Co
the registration diamond shows
that the pattern was registered on 
6 April 1868
 

 


 


jug with holly decoration
impressed marks 79-3 on the base show 
the date of  manufacture as March 1879

 


 


Brown transferware plate in the Aesthetic style

Aesthetic patterns 


Pinder, Bourne & Co

the registration diamond shows that the pattern was registered on  4 August 1880
the impressed 11-80 is the date of manufacture - November 1880
 

 


 


purple transferware plate in the Cable pattern  

Cable 
P B & Co

 

 

 
cup & saucer in the Cable pattern - polychrome  with gilding

 


 


plates with a series of different bird patterns

these have the registration mark for 4th April 1871

 

 


 


Souvenir ware - Tay Bridge, Dundee

This crockery depicts the original Tay Bridge which carried rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland. 
The ware was likely produced to be sold as souvenirs. These examples were made by Pinder, Bourne & Co in June 1879 - as Queen Victoria was travelling across the bridge on the 20th of June there was probably an anticipation of an increase in sales.  

 

  • The bridge was opened for passenger rail traffic on the 1st June 1878

  • On 20 June 1879, Queen Victoria crossed the bridge during her return south from staying at Balmoral. The designer Thomas Bouch was presented to her before she did so. 

  • On 26 June 1879, Bouch was knighted by the Queen at Windsor Castle.

  • On the night of 28 December 1879 the bridge collapsed after its central spans gave way during high winter gales. A train carrying seventy-five passengers and crew was crossing at the time of the collapse, it plunged into the waters of the Tay. All seventy-five people on board were killed. 

 

 


Tay Bridge, Dundee


This view of the railway crossing of the Firth of Tay is of the original bridge from its north end in Dundee

- see the original photograph that this engraving was based on -



Pinder
Bourne
& Co

the numbers 79-6 is the year-month of manufacture,
 in this instance June of 1879 

photos courtesy: Peter Gackowski 

 

 

 


 

Marks and initials used on ware for identification: 

P. B. & Co

 

PINDER BOURNE
& CO

NOTE: on some ware there is an impressed date
giving the month and year (or year-month) of manufacture.
e.g. 6.80 for June 1880

 


 


Pinder Bourne & Co
Nile St.
Burslem
 

'Nile Street' was the location of the works
'Burslem' is the town

 this mark is recorded in Godden 'Encyclopaedia of British and Porcelain Marks'
however it is rarely found in practice

  



Pinder Bourne & Co
Burslem,
Staffordshire

Stone China
Pinder Bourne & Co
Burslem
 

marks incorporating the Royal Arms
- generally found on white ironstone ware

 


 


Pinder Bourne & Co

 


 

   
P. B. & Co 
often including the pattern name
this style of mark was continued from the predecessor  
Pinder Bourne & Hope and was also used on early Doulton & Co ware

 


 


Pinder
Bourne
& Co

the numbers 79-3 give the year-month of manufacture, in this case March 1879


Pinder
Bourne
& Co

the registration diamond shows that the pattern was registered on  4 August 1880
the impressed 11-80 is the date of manufacture - November 1880
 

Pinder
Bourne & Co
Burslem

 


 


The Nile Street Works

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