See the Potteries List section for the Temple Gate Pottery.
The Pottery had previously been run by William Powell until his death in 1854.
| 1854-1906 | William Augustus Frederick Powell and Septimus Powell ran the Temple Gate Pottery, trading as William Powell & Sons.
William Augustus Frederick Powell was superintendent of the stone ware pottery. |
Following William Augustus Frederick Powell’s death in 1906, William Powell and Sons amalgamated with Price, Sons and Company in 1907, the firm becoming Price, Powell and Company. The Temple Gate Pottery closed in 1906 and the new firm operated from Price’s premises in St Thomas Street. Price, Powell and Company ceased trading in 1961.
Born c1814 in Bristol, the son of William Powell and the brother of Septimus Powell and Banjamin Powell.
| 1856-60 | William Powell & Sons, brown stone ware, glass bottle and patent sugar mould manufacturer. Sole manufacturer of improved stoneware which is glazed inside and out, resists acid and will not absorb, Temple Gate (MD). |
| 1857-66 | William Powell and Sons exported stoneware to Melbourne, Jersey, Guernsey and Rotterdam (PB-EXP). |
| 1857 | 4 Jul. ‘To stoneware throwers. Constant employment can be given to two good hands – Apply to William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1857 | 15 Aug. ‘Stoneware potters. Wanted, a large ware thrower – Apply to Wm Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1857 | 19 Sep. ‘Stoneware potters. Wanted, a large ware and one or two other throwers. Apply to Wm. Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1858 | 6 Feb. ‘To be let, with immediate possession, spacious premises, with an 18 horse power condensing engine attached. Apply to William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1861 | 31 Mar. The firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition (Western Daily Press). |
| 1861 | Glass bottle manufacturer employing 117 men, 42 boys and 6 women, Norland House, Clifton (47), living with his sister Sarah (38) and his brother Septimus Powell and family (61C). |
| 1861-1906 | William Powell & Sons, improved stone ware, glass bottle and sugar mould manufacturers, Temple Gate (MD, WD). |
| 1862 | William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery, exhibited various articles in stoneware at the International Exhibition, London (‘Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, London, 1862’, Vol.II). |
| 1863 | 22 Oct. ‘To stone ware throwers. A small ware thrower, of good character, can obtain employment upon application to William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1865 | Sun Insurance Policy 211040402 Michaelmas 1865-1866. William Powell & Sons of Bristol, Potters. On the following property situate at Temple Gate, Bristol, as described on a Plan deposited in this office … House only private £600, House only private £400, House only private £100. Pottery Buildings all communicating … £1750. Shed, warehouses, claymills, crushing mill and steam engine and boiler house all communicating … £50. Lodge £50, Stable £50, Basket shop £200, And on Fire Engine house and loft £50. Total £3250. All brick, stone and tiled and occupied by the assured except part of Buildings described [house and loft] which are occupied by Albert Daniel Morton, a miller and dealer in hops, oil cake and seed …Sun Insurance Policy 2110403 William Powell & Sons of Bristol, Potters. On the following property in their Pottery Buildings situate at Temple Gate … Stock, Utensils and Fixtures in the buildings all communicating £2040 Stock, Utensils and Fixtures in the buildings all communicating used as a shed, warehouses, clay mills, crushing mill and steam engine and boiler house £100. The Steam Engine and the Machinery worked thereby in the last named buildings £400, Stock and Utensils in Stable £60, Total £2600 … |
| 1866 | 25 Aug. ‘To stoneware throwers. Wanted a large ware thrower. Full and constant employment can be given to a steady man. Apply to William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1870 | 8 Oct. ‘To stoneware potters, constant employment can be given to a thrower, of ability and taste. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1872 | 31 Aug. ‘To potters and others. Wanted steady men as place setters in kilns. Wages 24s to 26s per week. Constant employment. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1874 | 7 Nov. ‘To stoneware potters and others. Throwers wanted. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1876 | 20 Mar. ‘To stoneware potters. Constant employment can be given to a small ware thrower and a lather. William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1880 | 13 Nov. ‘To basket makers. Wanted immediately, two or three steady men. Apply Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1881 | Justice of the Peace and glass bottle manufacturer employing 120 men, 37 boys and 3 women, Norland House, Canynge Road, Clifton (66), living with his sisters Constance (67) and Sarah (64) and servants Sarah Mayes (47), Elizabeth Adams (24) and Ann Jelly (22) (81C). |
| 1881 | 17 Dec. ‘To potters. Lathers wanted. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1883 | 17 Jan. He was described as a glass bottle manufacturer and Merchant Venturer (Ao). |
| 1883 | 17 Jan. ‘Wanted a mould maker. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1884 | 10 Jun. ‘Wanted, a lather. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1885 | 30 Dec. A fire occurred at Morton’s flour mills at Temple Gate. ‘The flames bursting out of the windows of the several floors, shot across Messrs Powell and Son’s yard to within two or three feet of the pottery warehouse filled with bottles and ware goods. Some parts of Messrs Morton’s mills had been built over the engine house and clay machines of the pottery and though by the determined efforts of the firemen their premises were saved, the engine house and the machinery were so deluged with water that some hundreds of pounds of damage must have been done in this direction. Messrs Powell’s workmen were on holiday, and were to have resumed work this morning. The foreman, T.J. Lewis, was on the premises and with the watchman gave all necessary assistance to the firemen. Some of the workmen here … will be out of employment for some time in consequence of the fire’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1886 | 6 Oct. ‘To stoneware potters. Wanted a thrower. William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1890 | 12 Aug. ‘To potters, kilnmen and others. Employment offered by William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1891 | Justice of the Peace and glass bottle manufacturer, 33 Canynges Road, Clifton (77), living with his sister Sarah (75) and Fanny Perkins (50) cook, Ann Jelly (32) housemaid and Elizabeth Adams (35) parlourmaid (91C). |
| 1891 | 13 Oct. ‘Pottery man wanted. Apply William Powell & Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1892 | 31 May. ‘To stoneware potters. Throwers wanted. Apply to William Powell and Sons, Temple Gate Pottery’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1901 | Glass bottle, stoneware manufacturer, 33 Canynge Road, Clifton (87), living with his sister Sarah (85) and Elizabeth Adams (44) parlourmaid, Emily Merrick (38) cook and Alice Summers (30), housemaid (01C). |
| 1901 | Advertisement: ‘William Powell and Sons. Improved-glazed spirit jars. Inventors and original manufacturers of the Bristol stoneware, spirit, treacle and vinegar jars (wicker & plain), drip pans, barrels, stoneware ale, porter and ginger beer bottles. Improved water filters, jugs, pans, pickerling and preserved jars and an especial registered air tight pot. Wm. Powell and Sons have introduced a new and effective way of marking. Name and Trade Mark, etc., on jars in colour’ (WD). |
| 1906 | 9 Feb. He died at Norland House, Clifton. Probate was granted to the Rev. William Hawkins Powell, Arthur Cecil Powell, glass bottle manufacturer, and others. Effects valued at £168,842.14s.3d (Ancestry website). |
| 1907 | 21 Dec. A charity called ‘The Church Lands’ proposed to grant a building lease on the pottery recently occupied by Messrs W. Powell and Sons, and described as ‘a piece of land, containing 4,540 square yards … with buildings thereon, situate between Pile Street and Redcliff Mead Lane, at Temple Gate’ (Western Daily Press). |
| Apprentices: John Colston Roper, 6 Aug 1863 (Ao) William Edward Milsom, 28 Apr 1865 (Ao) Richard Colston Roper, 2 Oct 1865 (Ao) William Thomas, 19 Aug 1867 (Ao) David Llewellin, 24 Mar 1879 (Ao) William Hawkins Powell, 17 Jan 1883 (Ao) Arthur Cecil Powell, 17 Jan 1883 (Ao) |