Hewitt and Leadbeater

Hewitt Brothers




 

Location and period of operation:

Hewitt & Leadbeater

Longton

1907

1919

 

Hewitt Brothers

Longton

1919

c.1925

 

China and Parian manufacturers at the Willow Pottery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

  • The company was founded c.1907 by brothers-in-law Arthur Hewitt and Edwin Leadbeater.

  • Edwin Leadbeater left the partnership in 1919 and the business continued as Hewitt Brothers under the control of Arthur Hewitt's sons Arthur Edward Hewitt and Joseph Hewitt.

  • Hewitt & Leadbeater and Hewitt Brothers were important manufacturers of crested china miniatures. 

  • The business was acquired by Harold Taylor Robinson about 1925 who founded a new company Willow Potteries Ltd.

 

 

 

Subsequently: Willow Potteries Ltd

 

 

 

from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

 

 


Hewitt and Leadbeater Parian Ware Bust of Beethoven
moulded mark H L 

 

 

 

 


Crested China Cheese Dish

Cardinal Wolsey (Hampton Court)  
WILLOW ART CHINA
Longton

 

  

 

 

 


model of Shakespeare's House

 

 


cup for Ipswich Technical College 

 

 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

 


Willow Art
China
Longton 

this style of mark was used by both Hewitt & Leadbeater and Hewitt Brothers - it is not possible to distinguish them

c.1907 - c.1925
Willow Art
China
Longton
Made in England

this style of mark appears to have only been used by Hewitt Brothers 

c.1919 - c.1925

 

 


Willow 
Stoke-on-Trent
Made in England

NOTE: marks with "Willow" and Stoke on Trent" were used by the successor company 
Willow Potteries Ltd

c.1925 - c.1930

 

 


1927 photo of Daisy Bank marl hole and the surrounding pottery factories
- click picture for more -

purple line = Willow Street

light blue oval = Willow Pottery of Hewitt & Leadbeater

 

Questions, comments, contributions? email: Steve Birks