Beck, Blair & Co






 

Location and period of operation:

Beck, Blair & Co

Longton

January 1879

November 1879

 

China manufacturer at the Beaconsfield Pottery, Anchor Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • The partners of the former company were John Beck, Thomas Wild, Augustine Beck and Henry Beck - trading as Beck, Wild & Co.

  • On the 13th January 1879 Thomas Wild and Augustine Beck left the business. John and Henry Beck continued and were joined by William Robert Blair - the new company traded as Beck, Blair & Co.

  • At sometime Thomas & George Bakewell joined the business.   

  • The partnership was short lived and was dissolved on the 19th November 1879 when John and Henry Beck left the business. 

  • The remaining partners - William Robert Blair, Thomas Bakewell & George Bakewell continued as Blair & Co. 

 

Formerly: Beck, Wild & Co

Subsequently: Blair & Co

 

 

The London Gazette
17th January 1879
 


notice of the dissolution of the partnership of Beck, Wild & Co
the business to continue as Beck, Blair & Co 

 

 

The London Gazette
21st November 1879


notice of the dissolution of the partnership of Beck, Blair & Co
the business to continue as Blair & Co  

 

 

 


Beck, Blair & Co
Beaconsfield Pottery, Anchor Road, Longton, Staffordshire

 The Pottery Gazette, American and Canadian Edition, January 1st 1880

NOTE: Beck, Blair & Co. had been dissolved in November 1879
this advert had obviously been booked before then.

the business continued as Blair & Co.  

 

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