Earthenware manufacturer at the Albert Street Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

• The partners were Arthur William Parrott and his brother Charles Henry Parrott.

Arthur William Parrott

Charles Henry Parrott

• The woman who was chief of the office staff at Albert Street was called Henshall - The manager of the works in the 30's was named Bently (Bentley).

• In 1941, under the Wartime Concentration Scheme manufacturing was moved to the Middleport Pottery of Burgess and Leigh. After the war the business moved back to the Albert Street Pottery.

• c.1950 the works were purchased by Dudson and J.E. Heath was established there as a manufacturer of hotel ware.

• It appears that after the war the business of Parrott & Co. concentrated on decorating blanks made by others. Godden 'Encyclopaedia of British Pottery & Porcelain Marks' 1964 - records "The manufacture of pottery has been discontinued"

• Charles had retired during the war time period and moved to Ilfracombe he died in 1959. Arthur continued  in the business.

• The business was known to be in operation, in some form, in 1960 - it was recorded in the 1960 Pottery Gazette Reference Book & Directory as a manufacturer of "dinner ware, tea ware, chambers, coffe ware, fruit or dessert sets, pudding basins, sandwich set, teapots (earthenware, decorated)" A. W. Parrott was recorded as the Proprietor. 

• Arthur W Parrott died around 1965.

the brochure and background information provided by Mike Parrott (Son of Charles Parrott)