See the Potteries List section for the Counterslip Pottery, the 124 Temple Street Pottery, the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery, the St Thomas Street Pottery 2 and the St Philip’s Pottery 11.
Counterslip Pottery
The Pottery had previously been run by Joseph Gadd alone. In 1796 he entered into partnership with Charles Price I.
| 1796-97 | Charles Price I and Joseph Gadd ran the Counterslip Pottery. |
In 1797 the Counterslip Pottery was closed and the business transferred to the 124 Temple Street Pottery. The Counterslip Pottery was taken over by William Maynard II.
124 Temple Street Pottery
| 1797-98 | Charles Price I and Joseph Gadd ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery.
Joseph Gadd died in April 1798 and the Pottery was then carried on by Charles Price I who entered into a partnership with Joseph Read. |
| 1799-1804 | Charles Price I and Joseph Read ran the 124 Temple Street Pottery.
Joseph Read died in 1803 but the firm retained the name of Price and Read until 1817. |
Charles Price then moved his business next door into James Alsop’s old premises at the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery. John Duffett succeeded them at the 124 Temple Street Pottery.
123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery
| 1805-08 | Charles Price I ran the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery, trading as Price & Read. |
In 1809 the firm of Price & Read expanded into the St Thomas Street Pottery 2.
123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery and St Thomas Street Pottery 2
| 1809-49 | Charles Price I ran the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery and the St Thomas Street Pottery 2.
From 1809 to 1817, the firm traded as Price & Read. From 1818 to 1822 the firm traded as Charles Price (late Read). In 1822 Charles Price I entered into partnership with his son Charles Price II, the firm trading as Charles Price & Son. In 1845 Charles Price I entered into a further partnership with his son Joseph Read Price, the firm trading as Charles Price & Sons. |
Charles Price I died in January 1849 and the Pottery was then carried on by Charles Price II and Joseph Read Price.
St Philip’s Pottery 11
| c1827-c42 | Charles Price I and Charles Price II ran the St Philip’s Pottery 11. |
The Pottery was advertised to let in 1842, but it was mentioned in the directories as being used by the firm of Charles Price & Son until 1844.
Born c1771 in Bristol, the son of Charles Price, a cordwainer (TPR, A, 41C).
His father had been born in Carmarthen in 1739 and served as a soldier in Europe under Prince Ferdinand o Brunswick. At the Battle of Minden in 1759 ‘he received a ball which passed through one thigh and was cut out the other’. He returned to Bristol after the Seven Years War ended in 1763 and acquired an interest in The Fourteen Stars tavern in Counterslip. He died in 1813 (obituary in FFJ 1813).
| 1771 | 3 Nov. He was baptised, the son of Charles and Alice Price (TPR). |
| 1785 | 4 Oct. He was apprenticed to Thomas and Ann Patience. Friends to find apparel and washing (A). |
| 1794 | He married Mary Dickenson of Bideford, Devon. She died in 1806 (information from the Price family). |
| 1796 | 1 Nov. He entered into partnership with Joseph Gadd (BRO Will 1798). |
| 1796 | 9 Dec. He obtained his freedom as he had been the apprentice of Thomas Patience, deceased (F). |
| 1798 | A potter of Counterslip he was in the 6th Company of Bristol Volunteers (Brown 1798). |
| 1799-1801 | Price & Read, brown stone potter, Temple Street (MD). |
| 1799-1809 | Temple Street and Counterslip (Temple-L, Wa). He was next door to James Alsop. |
| 1801 | 18 May. An advertisement for a dwelling house and shop in Temple Street in the occupation of George Iles, next to ‘Price and Read’s Pottery’ (FFJ). |
| 1802-04 | Price & Read, brown stone potter, 124 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1804 | He stood surety for Mary Thomas, victualler, Temple parish (AKL). |
| 1804-13 | Temple Street, Temple parish (Ao). |
| 1805-08 | Price & Read (late Alsop), brown stone potter, 123 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1807 | He married Eliza Read of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. She died in 1838 (information from the Price family). |
| 1809-17 | Price & Read, brown stone potters, 123 Temple Street and next to the Bunch of Grapes, Thomas Street (MD). |
| 1809 | Sun Insurance Policy 837139 ‘Charles Price of Temple Street, Bristol, Potter … on his dwelling house … £150 … stock and utensils in a set of Potworks not exceeding £300’ (Blakeley 1978-79, 142). |
| 1810 | 22 Dec. ‘To Be Sold By Auction, At the Globe Tavern, in Christmas Street, on Monday the 14th day of January next … the reversion in fee, expectant on the decease of Mrs Margaret Alsop, widow, aged about 60 years, of all those Three Messuages or Tenements adjoining together, situate in Saint Thomas Street, in the said city of Bristol – And also the extensive Yard and Potter’s Manufactory complete, situate behind the said Messuages, one of which said Messuages is now in the occupation of William Peters, Tinman, and the other two are used as warehouses, and are, together with the said Manufactory, in the occupation of Charles Price, Potter …’ (FFJ). This was advertised again on 2 Nov 1811 (FFJ). |
| 1812-49 | Price and Read, Charles Price and then C. Price & Son were exporting stoneware to Waterford, Dublin, Cork, Youghall, Limerick, Belfast, Dundalk, Newry, Guernsey, Jersey, Jamaica, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Miramichi (New Brunswick) and Calcutta (PB-EXP). |
| 1818 | 23 Feb. Stone potter, Temple Street, Temple parish (Ao). |
| 1818 | Charles Price (late Price & Read), brown stone potters, 123 Temple Street and next to the Bunch of Grapes, Thomas Street (MD). |
| 1819-23 | Charles Price (late Price & Read), brown stone potters, 123 Temple Street and Thomas Street (MD). |
| 1822 | 12 Jan. ‘Bristol Old Stoneware Pottery, Temple-Street and St Thomas-Street, Charles Price takes this opportunity of returning his very grateful acknowledgements to his Friends and the Public, for the liberal support he has experienced in the late firm of Price & Read, and since on his own account, including a term of upwards of 25 years, and begs to inform them that he has taken his son Charles into the Partnership with him under the firm of Charles Price & Son. C. Price & Son respectfully solicit a continuance of that preference, which the old concern have been favoured with for so considerable a period’ (FFJ). |
| 1823 | 3 Mar. Thomas Street (Ao). |
| 1823 | 125 Temple Street, Proprietor: Mrs Alsop, Occupier: Charles Price dwellinghouse, stoneware shop and manufactory. Thomas Street, St Thomas parish, Proprietor: Margaret Alsop, Occupier: Charles Price & Son, part of the Stone Ware Pottery (City Survey 04248). |
| 1823 | Counterslip, St Thomas Parish, Proprietor: Charles Price, Occupier: John Hodges, 14 Stars public house (City Survey 04248). |
| 1824 | 17 Jan. An advertisement that W.D. Price & Co. had taken over the Princes Street Coal Wharf and were selling coal. Orders from Messrs C. Price & Son, stone ware manufactory, Temple Street (FFJ). |
| 1824-25 | Charles Price & Son, brown stone potters, Temple Street & Thomas Street (MD). |
| 1824 | 3 Apr. ‘Old Stone Ware Pottery, St Thomas Street and Temple Street. Charles Price & Son beg to inform their friends and the Public that they have added to their general trade, the Manufacture of Patent Stone Ware Water Pipes, which for their durability, purity and price, give them a decided preference to either wood or lead. C. Price & Son beg to state, that the Pipes are extensively used for the purpose of Draining Land, as well as the conveyance of Water from Roofs of Houses, etc, etc …’ (FFJ). |
| 1826 & 30 | Temple Street (Ao). |
| 1826 | Charles Price & Sons, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturers, 43 Thomas Street & 125 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1827-35 | Charles Price & Son, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturers, 43 Thomas Street, 125 Temple Street & St Philip’s (MD). |
| 1830 | Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1830 | 12 Feb. Eliza Price, wife of Charles Price, aged 52 died (Brunswick Chapel, tombstone). |
| 1832 | Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1832 | Charles Price, Warehouse, Temple Street; House, Redcliff Street; House, Temple Street; Pottery, Temple Street (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1832 | Owner: Mrs Burch; Occupier: Charles Price for House & Pottery, Marsh (Gloucestershire Record Office, St Philip’s-Land Tax). |
| 1833 | Charles Price paid £97.16s.3d duty on his manufacture of stone bottles (from the ‘Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Management and Collection of the Excise Revenue [on] Stone Bottles and Sweets, London, 1834’). |
| 1835 | Stone potter, St Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1836-44 | Charles Price & Son, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturers, 43 Thomas Street, 125 Temple Street & St Philip’s (MD). |
| 1836 | Redcliff Ward, Pottery, Temple Street (WL). |
| 1837 | St James’s Place, District of St James’s and St Paul’s (P). |
| 1840 | Redcliff Ward, Pottery, Temple Street (WL). |
| 1841 | St James’s Place, District of St James’s and St Paul’s (P). |
| 1841 | Stoneware manufacturer, St James’s Place, Kingsdown (69), living with his children Anna Read Price (25), Eliza Read Price (25), Henry R. (25), Anna R. (20), Samuel (20) and Caroline R. (15), all born in county, and servants Mary Wood (40) and Sarah Denny (20) (41C). |
| 1842 | 6 Aug. ‘Eligible stoneware pottery to be let, on the 21 December next. A commodious stoneware pottery situate in St Philip’s Marsh, now and for many years past in the occupation of Messrs C. Price and Son. These premises, as well as the whole of the freehold property extending therefrom to the Marsh Bridge, may be purchased if preferred’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1845 | Redcliff Ward, House, Temple Street (WL). |
| 1845-49 | Charles Price & Sons, manufacturers of the improved or highly glazed stone ware and patent water pipe, 43 Thomas Street & 123 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1845 | 22 Feb. ‘A fire broke out Saturday evening last, about ten o’clock, on the premises of Messrs Price, pottery, Thomas Street, owing to the overheating of a stove. The bells of St Thomas church rang in alarm. The engines of the police force and of various offices soon coming up, by their united exertions, the devastating element was quickly subdued’ (Bristol Times). |
| 1848 | 24 Nov. Charles Price, potter and stoneware manufacturer, made his will. He left to his unmarried daughters Agnes(?), Elizabeth, Anna and Caroline ‘all the wines, liquors, fuel and other removable household stores which shall be in my dwellinghouse’and also £150’ each for their immediate purposes and an annuity of £300 each. He left legacies to his sister-in-law, Hannah Edmonds, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Edmonds of Cambridge, dissenting minister, Sophia Read, Lydia Read and Ellen Read sisters of Hannah Edmonds, the sum of £10 each. The remainder of his estate, including ‘the messuage or dwellinghouse number 123 Temple Street together with the pottery, kilns, warehouses and other hereditaments and premises wherein I now carry on in partnership with my sons Charles and Joseph Read Price the trade or business of a stoneware manufacturer … all of which premises … extend from Temple Street … and fronting which the said messuage or dwellinghouse stands to Thomas Street … fronting which the said warehouses stand … together with all the machinery, implements and utensils or my share and interest therein’ he left for the use of his sons Charles and Joseph Read Price as tenants in common. He left his house, where he then lived, 31 St Thomas Place, Kingsdown, together with his household furniture, plate, glass, earthenware, pictures, paintings, prints and printed books, to his friends the Rev. Henry Isaac Roper, dissenting minister, Robert Suter May, gentleman, both of Bristol and his son-in-law the Rev. Robert Emes May of Clevedon, Somerset, dissenting minister, subject to his four daughters being allowed to reside there if they remained unmarried. He left various legacies to his other children William Dickinson Price, Alice May, wife of Rev. Robert Emes May, Thomas Price, Mary Hewlett, wife of Rev. John Hewlett, Henry Read Price and Samuel Lovell Price. The will was proved on 16 February 1849 (PRO Prob11/2088). |
| 1849 | 9 Jan. Died, aged 77 (Brunswick Chapel, tomb). |
| Rate and tax book entries: Property 1 29 Sep 1798-29 Sep 1801] Charles Price Temple Street (Temple-Wa) [1799-25 Mar 1801] Charles Price Temple Street (Temple-L) 29 Sep 1801-29 Sep 1802] Price and Read Temple Street (Temple-Wa) 29 Sep 1803-29 Sep 1804] Price and Read Temple Street ¾ void (Temple-Wa) 25 Mar 1804-29 Sep 1804] Price and Read Temple Street void (Temple-H) 15 Jul 1805-25 Mar 1811 Price & Read Temple Street (Temple-H) 1822-23 Charles Price, Temple Street (Temple-H) 1823-26 Charles Price, Temple Street (Temple-Wa) 1827-35 Charles Price & Son Temple Street (Temple-Wa) 25 Mar 1830-25 Mar 1831 Chas. Price & Co Pottery (Temple-PR)Property 2 29 Sep 1803-29 Sep 1812 Price and Read Temple Street (Temple-Wa) 15 Jul 1805-25 Mar 1811 Price and Read Temple Street (Temple-H)Property 3 29 Sep 1798-29 Sep 1804 Charles Price Counterslip (Temple-Wa) |
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| Apprentices: With wife Mary: James Harman, 29 Oct 1798 (A) Thomas Luff, 16 Apr 1804 (A, Ao)-1 October 1812 (F) John Hookway, 22 Jun 1805 (A, Ao) Alone: Charles Thomas, 2 Feb 1807 (A, Ao) With wife Elizabeth: Joseph Howell, 1 Nov 1808 (A, Ao) William Dickenson Price, his son, 3 Jul 1809 (A, Ao)-11 Jun 1818 (F) Charles Price II, his son, 29 Nov 1813 (A, Ao) James Simmons, 7 Mar 1814 (A, Ao) Thomas Price, his son, 23 Feb 1818 (A) or 1816 (Ao) John Bond, 3 Mar 1823 (A, Ao) George Rock Evans, 11 Dec 1826 (A, Ao) Josiah Bond, 14 Jan 1830 (A, Ao) |
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| Children: William Dickenson, born 1795 (information from the Price family), apprenticed 3 Jul 1809 (A, Ao); Alice born 1797 (information from the Price family); Charles II, bapt 24 Mar 1799 (TPR); Mary, born 1803 (information from the Price family); Thomas, born c1803 (information from the Price family); Joseph Read, born c1808 (tombstone) died 27 Nov 1882 (Brunswick Chapel, tombstone); Anna Read, born c1816 (41C) or c1819 (tombstone), died 3 Jul 1856 (Brunswick Chapel, tombstone); Eliza Read, born c1816 (41C) or c1814 (tombstone), died 20 Jun 1877 (Brunswick Chapel, tombstone); Henry Read, born 1818 (information from the Price family) or c1816 (41C); Samuel Lovell, born c1821 (P/St.T/Ch/3/32 & P/St T/D/168a); Caroline Read, born 25 Mar 1822, died 12 Jul 1910 (Brunswick Chapel, tombstone), Agnes(?), mentioned in Charles Price’s will of 1848 |