See the Potteries List section for the Stapleton Road Pottery 2.
| 1854-55 | Mayer, Boulton & Company ran the Stapleton Road Pottery 2. |
They also made sanitary pipes at Nailsea in Somerset where they succeeded Coathupes & Co., and they had a London depot at wharf no.10 or 18 in the city basin.
The firm were declared bankrupt in 1855 and the Pottery was then taken over by Morgan and Hawley.
| 1854 | 19 Aug. ‘Cornwallis Pottery, Stapleton Road. This is a new and important addition to the manufactories in our city and neighbourhood. The proprietors, Messrs Mayer, Boulton and Co., from London, have purchased the premises formerly used as a tip factory and foundry, and have converted them into a Staffordshire pottery, where they are producing a great variety of articles, and especially such as are connected with sanitary purposes, etc., with which they are laying themselves out to supply “the millions”. Messrs M., B. and Co., approve of and are adopting the half-holiday system on Saturdays, and for the improvement of their workpeople are about to establish a library and reading-room on their premises. These are steps in the right direction, and worthy of extensive imitation’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1854 | 19 Aug. ‘To Sanitary Commissioners, Surveyors, Architects, Brass Founders, Plumbers, Builders, Engineers, etc, Mayer, Boulton & Co. (from London). Cornwallis Pottery, Stapleton Road, Bristol. This is the only manufactory in the kingdom for the exclusive production of plug, closet, sanitary and lavatory basins of all descriptions. M., B. & Co have purchased these extensive premises, which were formerly used as a tip factory and foundry, and converted the same into a Staffordshire Pottery, are now producing from fifteen hundred to two thousand of these articles weekly, and, from their intimate knowledge of, as well as their long practical acquaintance with, this peculiar business, they can manufacture cheaper than any other house. They invite especial attention to their drab hopper basin and trap, at 7s 6d each, delivered in any part of the kingdom, and where large quantities are required a liberal discount is allowed. Orders for white, drab, marbled, blue-printed, enamelled and gilt goods attended to on the shortest notice. London Depot: 22 Anderson’s Buildings, City Road. NB. On sale, two lathes, a drilling machine, a facing machine, a punching machine, a bending machine, a stove, a large fan, a pair of shears; also a great variety of patterns and tools used in the foundry business, and which must be removed before M.B. & Co. can complete their alterations’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1855 | Mayer, Boulton & Co., porcelain and earthenware manufacturers (stoneware potters), Stapleton Road (MD). |
| 1855 | 30 Jun. Bankruptcy. ‘Re Mayer, Boulton and Co., Bristol, potters. Mr Leonard, for the assignees, applied for an adjournment of the last examination for a fortnight, with a view to supercede the bankruptcy. An arrangement, he said, was in contemplation by which the creditors would get 4s in the pound; whereas if the matter were carried through the court they would not get 6d. The estate was a peculiar one, being a pottery, and one of the assignees, who was himself a practical potter, had consented to take the works and to pay the compensation mentioned. A meeting of creditors had been held, at which all who were present assented to his proposition, and he (Mr Leonard) believed that those at a distance would come into it. It was for the purpose of communicating with them that the adjournment was asked’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1855 | 22 Sep. Re: Mayer, Boulton and Co., Bristol, potters. The bankrupts came up on their last examination. The period comprised in their balance sheet is 1 year and 4 months. The bankrupts commenced with a capital of £410.19s.10d; the unaccrued creditors amount to £2744.13s.11d; creditors holding security £1901.13s.3d; liabilities £1396.19s.1d; net profits £322.18s.1d; losses £1135,12s.1d; amount drawn out by the partners £330.16s.6d; assets £743.4s.2d. Mr Mayer was briefly examined as to the amount of capital with which the bankrupts commenced business, and also as to some accommodation bill transactions, and the amount expended on the Cornwallis Pottery, after which the bankrupts passed (Bristol Mercury). |