W. H. Grindley & Co.

W H Grindley was an English pottery company that made earthenware and ironstone tableware, including flow blue. The company was founded in 1880 by William Harry Grindley (b. 1859) of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.

The company was founded at the Newfield Pottery by Grindley and Alfred Meakin (connected to J. & G. Meakin company), but the partnership ended in 1884 and Grindley continued alone.[1] It moved to the Woodland Pottery in 1891.[2] William Harry Grindley died in 1926.[3]

W H Grindley was taken over by Alfred Clough in 1960,[4][2] and became known as Grindley of Stoke in 1978. The company bought Ceramix in 1980,[5] and was itself bought by Federated Potteries in 1982 before being bought back by W H Grindley in 1988. The company went into receivership in 1991 and was taken over by Woodlands Pottery.[6] Pattern books and records from 1880-1930 are in the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives.[7][8]

Many of the marks incorporate a saling ship

The use of the town name "TUNSTALL" in the mark indicates a date prior to 1891.

Marks with "LTD" indicate a date 1925 onwards