The Grindley Hotel Ware Co Ltd

Manufacturer of earthenware hotel and catering ware at the Globe Pottery, Scotia Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

The business was started in 1908 by William Harry Grindley who was the principal partner of the nearby business of W.H. Grindley & Co which was originally founded in 1880.

"W. H. Grindley & Co., the progressive firm of Tunstall earthenware manufacturers, have commenced the erection of a commodious new model factory, which is expected to be in full working trim before the spring is over. It is to be built on a site in Scotia-road, adjoining the Chatterley- Whitfield wharf, and will occupy an area of about 7,000 square yards.
The factory will all be built on one story, and is intended to supply exclusively hotel ware. Its cost is to be between £8,000 and £10,000, and the contract has been let to Mr. James Grant, of Cobridge. There are to be four ovens, a special dippers’ drying tower is being installed, and the paving is to be stone sets, special arrangements being made to ensure perfect drainage. The most up-to-date machinery is to be installed, and the works will find employment for a large number of workpeople."

The Pottery Gazette - March 1908

In May 1908 the announcement was made that 'The Grindley Hotel Ware Co. Ltd.' had been registered with a capital of £15,000 in £1 shares to adopt an agreement with W. H. Grindley and J. H. Fleming. The subscribers W. H. Grindley, Mrs S. T. Grindley, J. H. Fleming, Miss A. M. Fleming, C. Bailey, Mrs A. J. C. Bailey, D. G. Norman.
The company was sold in 1920 and became part of H. T. Robinson's Cauldon Potteries Ltd - the business continued as Grindley Hotel Ware.
Following the liquidation of the umbrella company Cauldon Potteries Ltd in 1932 the Grindley Hotel Hotel Ware Co was voluntary wound up on the 19 January 1933.
In January 1933 the business was re-formed under the management of John Goddard and Joseph Harrison.
It was around the early 1930's that the trade name 'Duraline' was adopted.
In 1952 the business was acquired by Dudson Bros. and it continued to trade as the Grindley Hotel Hotel Ware Co - a member of the Dudson Group.
At the end of 1979 the company incorporated its trade name into its title and became The Duraline Hotel Ware Co Ltd.
1st June 1996 saw another name change to Dudson Duraline Ltd

notice of the voluntary winding up of
The Grindley Hotel Ware Company
on 23rd December 1932

notice that The Grindley Hotel Ware Company
intend to register land off Scotia Road, Tunstall

Barrett & Son Ltd is be the name of the retailer
11-50 is the date of manufacture - November 1950

Marked: Gibson & Patterson PTY LTD Sydney
(who were agents for the Grindley Hotel Company in Australia and New Zealand)

Grindley Hotel Ware Co made catering ware for hotels,
restaurants and organisations all over the world

From c.1932 ware was marked with the month and year of manufacture
this practice was continued was the business was taken over by Dudson.

trade names of Grindley Hotel Ware Co

Duraline was predominately used
marks with the DURALINE trade name introduced c.1932+

from a plate produced for for RAF canteens
recovered from an old WWII Bomb Dump (RAF Turweston, Buckinghamshire)

Cassidy's would be the name of a retailer
3-63 is the date of manufacture - March 1963

BS 4034 is a "Specification for the requirements for resistance
to water absorption and crazing of vitrified hotelware"

7 Hollinshead & Kirkham

8 Johnson Bros. (Hanley), Ltd.

9 Grenville Pottery, Ltd.

10 W. H. Grindley & Co., Ltd.

11 Thos. Dean & Sons, Ltd.

12 A. G. Richardson & Co., Ltd.

13 Grindley Hotel Ware Co., Ltd.

14 Wedgwood & Co., Ltd.

Works in 2017
The old buildings of the original Globe Pottery can still be seen

Crest of the Niarara Falls Commission	Standish Hall Hotel
A. E. B. SOMMERLYST	YMCA