Grimwades
Ltd |
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Location and period of operation:
Grimwades
Ltd |
Stoke |
1900 |
1995 |
Earthenware manufacturer - originally at the Winton Pottery, on the border of the towns of Hanley and Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
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Previously: Grimwade Bros
Subsequently:
Royal Winton
Pottery Gazette - January 1906
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![]() Grimwades advert for their stand at the Festival of Empire held at The Crystal Palace, London |
Initials used on ware for identification:
UPPER HANLEY POTTERY
STOKE POTTERY
ROYAL WINTON
RUBIAN ART
GRIMWADES
Grimwades Limited
Stoke-on-Trent
NANCY is the pattern name - the
registration
number shows that the pattern was registered in 1902
fragment found on the mud banks
of the River Thames in 2021
courtesy: Adam Walczak
examples of a tureen and a soup
bowl in the Nancy pattern
![]() jug by Grimwades in their Adam Style pattern introduced c.1904 The name of the pattern is 'Adam' after the famous neo-classical architect and designer Robert Adam |
![]() detail of the rams head on the handle
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![]() Grimwade's Winton GB Stoke-on-Trent England impressed mark ADAM
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Atlas China
Stoke-on-Trent
Grimwade
England
this mark revived by Grimwades
c. 1930-36
Click the links below for more information:
Winton Pottery
"Messrs. Grimwade Brothers established their Winton Pottery (Stoke) in
about 1886.
A wide range of useful and decorative earthenware was produced."
From: Jewitts 'Ceramic Art of Great
Britain 1800-1900.
Mould Makers' Shop, Winton Pottery
plate making at the Stoke pottery
Aerographing for decorating by compressed air
Gilding and enamelling the Royal Winton Ware
| Grimwades and Davenport patterns |
Questions, comments, contributions? email: Steve Birks
GRIMWADE, Leonard Lumsden (c. 1863-1931), pottery manufacturer, Stoke upon Trent. Leonard Grimwade was born in Ipswich about 1863, the son of Richard Grimwade. He began his business life with his uncle as a dry salter in Ipswich. He came to the Potteries as a modeller but quickly moved to manufacturing. He was joined by his brother, Sydney, by 1886, and worked the Winton Pottery. The style became Grimwade's Ltd. in March 1900. Leonard Grimwade went for a time to Australia but returned to the Potteries.
A serious fire at the Winton factory in 1916 led to Leonard Grimwade's proposing that Stoke on Trent should have at least three motor fire engines.
He modified his free-trade views to some extent during the First World War, by which time his five factories employed 1,000 people. In December 1917 he printed a message from the prime minister asking for economy in consumption of food on reduced sized butter dishes, milk jugs and plates, which sold at one shilling each. He married twice and had two sons and two daughters. His first wife, Marion, was elcted to the Stoke Board of Guardians in 1897. He was killed in a road accident on 26 January 1931 and was buried in Hartshill cemetery. Sources: Jewitts, Pottery Gazette 2 March 1931; VCH ii., People of the Potteries. |