Pountneys Additional References

Bristol Reference Library Reference Description 22719 Catalogues for Reinforced Vitrite hotel ware; Long Line kitchenware; Dynasty, Lilybell, Cotswold, Golden Days, Vineyard and Tête-à-Tête table wares.   Items are shown with the "Founded 1652" mark, hence are dated from 1957-65.  Part of the sales pitch says that delft was made in Bristol before Holland (whoops!). 12364 Article in the Bristol Times and Mirror 1923. 14666 Bristol England, the Birthplace of America.  A short history of Bristol potteries, published by Pountney & Co. in 1934.  This is also in the record office.   Illustrated Bristol News.  Volume 3, October 1961.  There is an advertisement only, plus another for Baileys (a Pountney's stockist).   Illustrated Bristol News.  Volume 14, Number 114, March 1969.  Article about the move to Cornwall by Samuel Medlicott.  It proved to be over optimistic.

Bristol Record Office Reference Description 28049/30 a to c 1822 and 1887 factory plans 37924 Plan of Pottery (1854) 20165/1 1813 Articles of co-partnership 20165/2 1835 Dissolution of partnership 20165/3 1836 Articles of partnership 20165/4 1865 Prospectus of the Bristol Victoria Pottery 20165/5 1868 Victoria Pottery half yearly report 20165/6 1884 Victoria Pottery balance sheet 20165/7 1949 Letter re Allies family 20165/8 Pountney family tree 20165/10 to 19 1873 price list, 1877 price list, 1888 price lits, 1894 catalogue. 1896 export list, 1897 diamond jubilee price list, 1899 price list, price list after 1894, atalogue and price list before 1905 and two illustrated catalogues before 1905. 20165/20 Headed notepaper c1900. 20165/24 Catalogue 0f Bristol Earthenware 1786-1860 exhibition at Bristol Museum. 20165/25 to 27 Two illustrated catalogues of sanitary wares c1906 and one c1920. 20165/28 1899 Letter re prices 20165/29 1905 Article - "A New Bristol Pottery" 20165/30 1934 Bristol, England, The Birthplace of America (also in the library) 20165/31 1943 Notes (recruitment) 20165/32 Design sheet 20165/33 Drawing of the pottery c1918 20165/34 Kitchen ware catalogue (c1938) 20165/35 Recruiting leaflet (c1948) 20165/36 1884-6 Accounts re Patrick Johnson receivership 20165/37 1889-98 Revenue accounts 20165/38 1894 Memorandum and articles of the Bovey Pottery 20165/39 to 40 1899 Bovey Pottery price list and 1910 Bovey Pottery colonial catalogue 20165/42 1947-54 Bovey Pottery balance sheet - Temple Gate branch 20165/43 1957 Bovey Pottery article "How the union killed the 200-year-old pottery 20165/44 to 47 Bovey Pottery colonial price list; design sheet and price list; design sheet and sanitary ware; and more design sheets. 20165/48 List of catalogues, price lists, etc. (notes by Patrick Johnston)