Globe Pottery, Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent

From To Occupier Comments
1834 1862 Harding & Cockson The Globe pottery was established in 1834 by Harding & Cockson who produced china goods. From the death of Harding in 1856, the business was conducted until 1861 by his sons in partnership with Mr Cockson.
1862 1865 Cockson From these dates the works were managed by Charles Cockson alone. At this time china ware alone was produced.
1866 1875 Cockson & Chetwynd In 1866 Elijah and David Chetwynd became partners and the firm continued as Cockson & Chetwynd. In 1873 Charles Cockson died.  
His son Charles Edward Cockson continued at the business
Another son Charles Thomas Cockson was a decorator at the business until 1870 when he emigrated to America. 

"In 1866 the making of china was discontinued and the manufacture of white graniteware for the American trade was substituted.  The mark is the royal arms and the name IMPERIAL IRONSTONE CHINA, COCKSON & CHETWYND or COCKSON & SEDDON or BIRKS BROTHERS & SEDDON, who continued to 1888."
Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain 1800-1900
1876 1877 Cockson & Seddon Short lived partnership between Charles Edward Cockson and Joshua Seddon.
1877 1888 Birks Brothers & Seddon Seddon joined as partners with the Birks brothers and they continued the manufacture of white and also decorated graniteware for the American market.
1888 1892 Hughes & Robinson The partners were John Hughes, Joseph Robinson and Charles Billington the younger.
1893 ? 1913 ? Globe Sanitary Pottery The operation dates are unknown and it is assumed that this company continued from the closure of Hughes and Robinson in 1892 and that the Globe pottery Company took over from them in 1914.
1914 1934+ ?? Globe Pottery Co Ltd In 1933 the Globe Pottery Company purchased the larger Ridgway (Bedford Works) Ltd.
From 1934 the Globe Pottery Company operated from the Bedford Works of Ridgways (who also continued to operate under its own name)
1940 1952+ ?? North Staffordshire Pottery Co Ltd In 1940 the North Staffordshire Pottery Co. Ltd was founded at the Globe pottery works by Thomas Lawley and James Hasall.

 


At the top left of the picture can be seen the smoking bottle kilns of the Globe Pottery Works

 

Globe Pottery Works - 1878 map
Globe Pottery Works - 1878 map 


Globe Pottery Works - 1900 map 

The Athletic ground next to the pottery works was home to 
Port Vale Football Club from 1887 to 1913.

It subsequently became a greyhound racing track and leter reverted to 
an athletics stadium run by the City Council - it was demolished in the 1980's

 

Cobridge - 1937 map
Cobridge - 1937 map 

Blue = Globe Pottery Works
Light blue - St. Augustine's House, Little Sisters of the Poor
Green - Christ Church - CoE
Red - Elder Pottery Works
Purple - Providence Chapel - Methodist
Yellow Line - Elder Road


Google map of the same area of Cobridge- 2014 

The site of the Globe Pottery is now a Mercedes-Benz car showroom

 

The Globe Pottery Works in 1947
In the foreground is the Globe Pottery Works in 1947 
immediately behind is St. Augustine's House, Little Sisters of the Poor
the road to the left is Cobridge Road
in the background is Shelton Colliery (Race Course Pit No 5) belonging to Shelton Iron & Steel 

 

The Globe and Elder Potter Works - 1947
The Globe and Elder Potter Works - 1947 

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Blue = Globe Pottery Works
Light blue - St. Augustine's House, Little Sisters of the Poor
Green - Christ Church - CoE
Red - Elder Pottery Works
Purple - Providence Chapel - Methodist
Yellow Line - Elder Road

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