Plant & Taylor | Ralph Plant & Sons

Plant & Taylor	Longton		1892
Plant & Co		1892	1895
Ralph Plant & Sons		1895	1901

Earthenware manufacturer at the Warwick Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England

Originally established as Plant & Taylor at the Warwick Works, Chadwick-street, Longton. The partners were Ralph Plant and Sara Ann Taylor.
In October 1892 Sara Ann Taylor left the business. Ralph Plant continued the business as Plant & Co. (London Gazette, 8 Nov 1892)
By 1896 the business was named as R. Plant & Sons, manufacturing general earthenware for both the home and colonial markets. Their advertised specialities included toilet ware, tea ware and ornamental vases, while a London showroom at 90 Hatton Garden enabled them to serve customers throughout Britain and overseas. (Pottery Gazette Diary, 1896)
In May 1901 the partnership of James Enoch Plant, William Plant and Benjamin Heywood Cookson, trading as R. Plant & Sons at the Warwick Works, Chadwick Street, Longton, entered bankruptcy. Charles Ernest Bullock, a Hanley chartered accountant, was appointed trustee to administer the firm's estate on behalf of its creditors. The bankruptcy marked the end of the partnership's control of the Warwick Works. (London Gazette, 11 June 1901).

The London Gazette
8 November 1892

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Ralph Plant and Sarah Ann Taylor, carrying on business as Earthenware Manufacturers, at Warwick Works, Chadwick-street, Longton, in the county of Stafford, under the style or firm of Plant and Taylor, was dissolved, as and from the 18th day of October, 1892, by mutual consent. All debts due to and by the late firm will be received and paid by the said Ralph Plant, who will himself carry on the said business under the style or firm of Plant and Co.—Dated the 31st day of October, 1892.
RALPH PLANT.
SARAH ANN TAYLOR.

R. Plant & Sons,
Warwick Works, Chadwick St., Longton
Manufacturers of General Earthenware