See the Potteries List section for the St Thomas Street Pottery 2, the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery and the 131 Temple Street Pottery.
123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery, the St Thomas Street Pottery 2 and the 131 Temple Street Pottery
| 1822-63 | Charles Price II ran the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery and the St Thomas Street Pottery 2, and, from 1853, the 131 Temple Street Pottery.
From 1822 to 1844 Charles II was in partnership with his father, Charles Price I, the firm trading as Charles Price & Son. From 1845 to 1863 Charles Price II was in partnership with his father Charles Price I and his brother Joseph Read Price, the firm trading as Charles Price & Sons. Charles Price I died in 1849. From 1849 to 1863 Charles Price II was in partnership with his brother Joseph Read Price, the firm trading as Charles & Joseph Read Price. Charles Price II seems to have left the business in 1863, the firm being carried on by his brother Joseph Read Price and, presumably, his sons Charles Price III, Samuel Newell Price and Alfred Newell Price, the firm trading as Joseph and Charles Price and Brothers. |
For details, see under Joseph Read Price.
On Charles Price II’s death in 1869 the 123 (or 125) Temple Street Pottery and the 131 Temple Street Pottery were closed and production was concentrated at the St Thomas Street Pottery 2.
Born c1799, the son of Charles Price I and the brother of Joseph Read Price (TPR, 51C).
| 1799 | 24 Mar. He was baptised, the son of Joseph Read Price (TPR, 51C). |
| 1813 | 29 Nov. He was apprenticed to Charles and Elizabeth Price (A, Ao). |
| 1822 | 12 Jan. Charles Price I announced that he had taken his son, Charles, into a partnership known as Charles Price & Son (FFJ). |
| 1823 | He married Hannah Rebecca Newell, the daughter of Samuel Newell, a silk mercer (information from the Price family). |
| 1824-25 | Charles Price & Son,. brown stone potters, Temple Street & Thomas Street (MD). |
| 1826 | Charles Price & Son, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturer, 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). |
| 1832 | Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1832 | Charles Price, junior, Warehouse, St Thomas Street; Pottery, Temple Street (List of Electors BRO 04736). |
| 1836-44 | Charles Price & Son, stone ware and patent water pipe manufacturers, 43 Thomas Street, 123 Temple Street & St Philip’s (MD). |
| 1836 | Redcliff Ward, Pottery Temple Street, warehouse and counting house at 43 Thomas Street (WL). |
| 1837 | He was living at St James’s Place, Kingsdown, when his son Alfred Newell Price was baptised (PRO RG4/Piece 0388 Bridge Street Chapel (Congregational), 1714-1837). |
| 1840 | as 1836 (WL). |
| 1841 | Thomas Street, St Thomas parish (P). |
| 1841 | Stoneware manufacturer, St James’s Place, District of St James’s and St Paul’s (42), living with his wife Rebecca (40) not born in the county and children, and servants Elizabeth Davis (20) and Eliza Alsop (15) both born in the county (41C). |
| 1842 | 16 Jul. Charles Price the younger, potter, held under a lease dated 6 March 1832 on the following property and required an extension of the lease on new lives: ‘All that messuage or dwellinghouse [now] used as a public house and called or known by the name of the Bunch of Grapes … in the occupation of John Kerby victualler with the yard and stables behind the same situate in Thomas Street … on the lives of Joseph Read Price, aged 33 years … Anna Read Price aged 23 years … and Samuel Lowell aged 21 years sons and daughter of Charles Price the elder of Bristol potter …’ (BRO P/St T/D/168a). See also 1880. |
| 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). |
| 1848 | 24 Nov. In his father’s will he was left joint ownership of the pottery with his brother Joseph Read Price (PRO Prob 11/2088). |
| 1849 | 3 Feb. ‘St Thomas and Temple Street Potteries. Charles and Joseph Read Price, in continuing the business so many years carried on by them in connection with their late father (under the firm of Charles Price and Sons), beg to state they have always a large stock of every description of the improved stoneware on hand, and orders to any extent for exportation and the home trade will always command their attention’ (Bristol Times). |
| 1850-53 | Charles & Joseph Read Price, manufacturers of the improved or highly glazed stone ware and patent water pipe, 43 Thomas Street and 123 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1851 | Potter, Linton Villa, Richmond Park, Clifton (52), living with his wife Hannah (53), born in Kent, and children, and servants Seline Elliott (25) and Elizabeth Elliott (22) both born in Wiltshire (51C). |
| 1851 | St Thomas, Owner: Charles Price, Occupier: Chas & J.R.Price, Pottery (City Survey BRO 04250(1)). |
| 1852 | Linton Villa, Richmond Park (MD). |
| 1853-55 | Charles & Joseph Read Price, manufacturers of the improved or highly glazed stoneware, 43 Thomas Street and 123 and 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1853 | 8 Oct. ‘Old Stone-ware Potteries, St Thomas Street, and Nos. 123 and 131, Temple Street, Bristol, Charles & Joseph Read Price, manufacturers of the improved stone ware, having purchased the premises, with the entire stock-in-trade, fixtures and plant of the late firm of Messrs J. Bright & Co., 131 Temple Street, beg to inform their friends and those of the late firm that they are enabled, by the addition and enlargement of their works, to meet most effectively the demand for the home trade, and the increased requirements for exportation. C & J R P assure their friends all orders addressed to them at either of their Potteries will have their usual prompt attention – October 6th 1853’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1853 | 29 Oct. Charles Price of Thomas Street stood as a candidate for election to the Town Council. It was noted that he has ‘conducted a large Pottery in [the] Ward for upwards of 30 years, has been a careful, persevering man of business and during that time has consistently employed a large number of men to their mutual advantage’ and that he has ‘always been a liberal and consistent Free-Trader, even when Free-Traders were not highly esteemed’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1853-63 | C. & J.R. Price were exporting stoneware to Jersey, Melbourne, Adelaide, Oporto, Quebec, New York, Paspebiac (Quebec) and Le Havre (PB-EXP). |
| 1854 | 16 Sep. ‘To wholesaler basket-makers and others. To be let, fronting the church in Temple Street, the dwelling-house, No.131, and extensive premises behind. As the above has been for many years connected with the stone ware pottery buildings, now carried out into St Thomas Street, they are admirable adapted for the above trade, as in addition to a good shop and general business, arrangements may be entered into for securing a large amount of work, arising from and in connection with the pottery. Apply to C. & J.R. Price, the St Thomas and Temple Street Potteries’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1856-63 | Charles & Joseph Read Price, manufacturers of the improved or highly glazed stoneware, 38, 39 & 43 Thomas Street and 125 & 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1856 | 10 Nov. Charles Price, potter, renewed a lease granted on 27 September 1852, on ‘All that building situate in Thomas Street … formerly a messuage or tenement but now forming part of other premises used as a coach manufactory in the occupation of Thomas Doddrell Perrott …’ (BRO 604(1)). This lease passed to Alfred Newell Price on 18 January 1864 on consideration of the payment of £200 and was then passed to Jacob Dove, a leather merchant on 4 October 1873 (BRO 604(2 & 3)). Then see 1873. |
| 1860 | 4 Oct. ‘Conveyance by the surviving trustees of St Thomas Church lands to new trustees: ‘A messuage, yard, stables and curtilages formerly called the Bunch of Grapes now being part of Price’s Stone Ware Pottery in St Thomas Street. Lessee Charles price the younger, lease dated 16 July 1842 for 99 years on the lives of Joseph Read Price aged 33 years and Samuel Lovell Price aged 21 years, occupiers: Messrs Price’ (BRO P/St T/D/3). |
| 1861 | Stone ware manufacturer, visiting Portland Place, Great Malvern, Worcestershire (62), with his wife Rebecca (62), born in Faversham, Kent (61C). |
| 1862 | Charles and Joseph R. Price exhibited every description of the improved stoneware at the International Exhibition in London (‘Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, London, 1862’ Vol.II). |
| 1864-69 | Joseph & Charles Price & Brothers, manufacturers of the improved highly glazed stoneware, 37, 38 & 42, 43 & 44 Thomas Street and 125 & 131 Temple Street (MD). |
| 1866 | 23 Jan. The will of Charles Price of Linton Villa, Clifton. His household items, personal effects, carriages and horses and £1000 he left to his wife, Hannah Rebecca Price. He left £800 each to his daughters Rebecca Newell Price, Mary Price and Marianne Newell Price, and to his married daughter Eliza Read Sharp £300. His personal real estate he left to his wife, Hannah, and daughter Rebecca Newell Price. He appointed trustees who were empowered to sell to his three sons, Charles Price, Samuel Newell Price and Alfred Newell Price his freehold and leasehold premises in Thomas Street and Temple Street occupied by them and Joseph Read Price under a lease granted by him to them, together with the steam engines, machinery and fixtures in the premises. The will was proved on 12 February 1869. |
| 1867 | 25 Nov. ‘Wanted, an office boy, who can write a good hand. Aged about 14. Apply at Price’s Potteries, Thomas Street’ (Western Daily Press). |
| 1868 | 20 Jun. A letter by Charles Price junior to the Bristol Mercury: ‘At about one o’clock last night an alarm of fire was given at the house adjoining our Pottery works. Our foreman, Mr R. Brooks, with praiseworthy energy got out the hose that we keep always ready, and was enabled by promptly playing on the fire to keep it within bounds and actually extinguish it in the lower stories before the arrival of the fire-engines, thus preventing it spreading and extending to the adjoining premises … We consider the safety of our manufactory and the adjoining houses was solely attributable to the prompt and energetic measures taken by our foreman …’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1868 | 5 Dec. ‘To farmers. Wanted 10 to 20 tons straw for packing. Apply Messrs Price’s Potteries, Thomas Street’ (Bristol Mercury). |
| 1869 | 22 Jan. Charles Price II died. His will was proved on 12 Feb by his widow Hannah Rebecca and his daughter Rebecca Newell. His effects were valued at under £12,000 (PRO National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Adminstrations), 1858-1966). |
| 1869 | 28 Jan. ‘We regret having to record the death on Friday [22 Jan] at his residence, Linton-Villa, Richmond-park, of Mr Charles Price, of the firm of J. & C. Price Brothers, the extensive glazed stone ware manufacturers, Temple-Street and Thomas-Street … The said event has occasioned a vacancy in the Municipal Council, he having sat for a number of years as one of the councillors for the Ward of Redcliff. Mr Price was not more respected for integrity and ability in his commercial relations than he was beloved in private life for the great amiability of his character. In politics he was a staunch liberal’ (Bristol Gazette). |
| Children: All dates taken from PRO RG4/0388 Bridge Street, Chapel (Congregational), 1714-1837: Rebecca Newell, born 19 Mar 1825, bapt 9 Jan 1826; Charles, born 12 Jan 1827, bapt 20 Sep 1831; Eliza Read, born 26 Aug 1828, bapt 20 Sep 1831; Mary, born 20 Oct 1829, bapt 20 Sep 1831; Samuel Newell, born 29 Mar 1833, bapt 5 May 1835; Alfred Newell, born 16 Jan 1837; Mary N. (probably Marianne Newell – see will), born c1839 in the county (41C) |