Bankruptcy Proceedings

"Humphreys John Pitcairn, Scholar-green, Chester, late the Park Pottery, Tunstall, Staffs., and Russell-st. Works, Longton, Stafford[shire], manufacturer of pottery. 

This debtor attended the Town Hall, Hanley, last week, for his adjourned public examination on a statement showing gross liabilities of £6,879, assets of the value ot £557, and a deficiency placed at £4,876 8s. 9d. The debtor was examined at great length by the Official Receiver, and he said he now travelled the country selling crockery for his father and one named Cooper. 

He began to trade as art earthenware factor in 1898 with a capital of £200. In 1905 he took Park Pottery, and in 1907 he commenced manufacturing at Longton. In the same year he traded at Neath as a factor, and lately he purchased a business at Llanelly for £150, the money being advanced by his father-in-law. 

Between November, 1900, and November, 1907, he traded as a factor in High st., East Ham. In March this year he executed a deed of assignment. The debtor admitted that during the last two years he had had too many irons in the fire, and could not give effectual supervision to the businesses carried on in the Potteries. He was aware of his position in June, 1908, but it was not until March last that he found he was really on the wrong side. He had been carrying on business at a loss since June, 1907. The examination was closed."

The Pottery Gazette October 1909.