Earthenware manufacturer at Nile Street Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Pinder, Bourne & Co made lasting contributions to the British pottery industry through quality craftsmanship, global trade, and their role in the evolution of what became Royal Doulton.
Their ware was often intricately designed and catered to middle- and upper-class markets. 

• The Partners were Thomas Shadford Pinder and Joseph Harvey Bourne.

• Thomas Pinder had previously operated from the Swan Bank Works from 1848 and the Fountain Place Works from c.1852 - in 1851 he was joined by two partners and they operated as Pinder, Bourne and Hope (Thomas Pinder, Joseph Harvey Bourne, John Hope).

• In 1860 they moved to the already existing Nile Street Works. 

• In 1862 Mr. Hope left the partnership and stayed at the Fountain Place Works - the Nile street works continued as Pinder, Bourne & Co. The '& Co' were John Harris and Ernest Joban Berg.

• At some time Joseph Bourne left the business. 

• In 1877 notice for liquidation by arrangement was made by Thomas Shadford Pinder, John Harris and Ernest Joban Berg  co-partners of Pinder, Bourne & Co. 

• In 1877 Henry Doulton, of the Lambeth (London) pottery company Doulton & Co., was approached by Pinder, proposing he become a partner in the firm of Pinder, Bourne and Co for an outlay of £12,000 but the money was unwisely spent and differences of opinion caused such a rift between the two concerns that only arbitration could resolve the matter.

• Pinder retired and and Henry Doulton continued with the business. 

• Also in 1877 Henry Doulton was knighted, a few years later he was awarded the Albert Medal by the Royal Society of Arts.

• The name of Pinder, Bourne & Co. continued to be used until 1882 when it became Doulton & Co. Ltd.

Rudyard Kipling's father - Lockwood Kipling pursued a career as artist and craftsman. He was taken on as an apprentice by Pinder, Bourne & Co., the earthenware manufacturers of Burslem in Staffordshire, while concurrently studying (and winning prizes) at Stoke and Fenton School of Art. 

After two years working in London and elsewhere for an architectural sculptor, he joined the Department of Science and Art at South Kensington. It was during his four years with the Department that, going to and fro between London and the Potteries, he met Frederic Macdonald and became engaged to Alice. Rudyard Kipling was born to Alice and Lockwood in India.

In 1863 Lockwood Kipling and Robert Edgar were awarded joint first prize in the competition for the design of the facade and elevation of the Wedgwood Memorial Institute in Burslem

Rudyard Kipling was named after a lake and beauty spot near Stoke-on-Trent called Rudyard Lake  

London Gazette, 
January 14, 1862

London Gazette, 
September 1877

notice for liquidation by arrangement by
Thomas Shadford Pinder, John Harris and
Ernest Joban Berg 
co-partners of Pinder, Bourne & Co

This crockery depicts the original Tay Bridge which carried rail traffic across the Firth of Tay in Scotland. 
The ware was likely produced to be sold as souvenirs. These examples were made by Pinder, Bourne & Co in June 1879 - as Queen Victoria was travelling across the bridge on the 20th of June there was probably an anticipation of an increase in sales.  

• The bridge was opened for passenger rail traffic on the 1st June 1878

• On 20 June 1879, Queen Victoria crossed the bridge during her return south from staying at Balmoral. The designer Thomas Bouch was presented to her before she did so. 

• On 26 June 1879, Bouch was knighted by the Queen at Windsor Castle.

• On the night of 28 December 1879 the bridge collapsed after its central spans gave way during high winter gales. A train carrying seventy-five passengers and crew was crossing at the time of the collapse, it plunged into the waters of the Tay. All seventy-five people on board were killed. 

This view of the railway crossing of the Firth of Tay is of the original bridge from its north end in Dundee

- see the original photograph that this engraving was based on -

Pinder
Bourne
& Co

the numbers 79-3 give the year-month of manufacture, in this example 
March 1879