Cotton and Barlow






 

Location and period of operation:

Cotton & Barlow

Longton

1850

1857

 

Earthenware manufacturer at the Coronation Works, Commerce Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  • William Cotton was in partnership with Thomas Waterhouse Barlow as earthenware manufacturers from 1850. 

  • In February 1857 the partnership was dissolved and Thomas W Barlow continued on his own as T W Barlow  

 

Subsequently: T W Barlow

The London Gazette
24th February 1857 


Notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
 William Cotton and Thomas Waterhouse Barlow

 

 


jug in the Medina pattern

 


plate in the Medina pattern

the Medina pattern was one of the main transferware patterns produced by Cotton and Barlow

 


spatter ware plate by Cotton & Barlow 


Marks used on ware for identification:


C & B

Medina is the pattern name


C & B  -printed
Cotton and Barlow -impressed

 

   
Cotton and Barlow


1857 map showing the Coronation Place Pottery
on Commerce Street, Longton 

 

- click for photo of the works in 1937 -  

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