Wood and Sons

The Wood & Sons company was established in 1865 by Absalom Wood and his son T. F. Wood. The business traded first as Wood & Son, then as Wood & Sons (from c.1907) and was incorporated as Wood & Sons Ltd, in 1910. Wood & Sons Ltd became a large and successful earthenware manufacturer in the early twentieth century. Associated companies included H. J. Wood Ltd (at the Alexandra Pottery, Burslem), Bursley Ltd (later renamed Susie Cooper Pottery Co. Ltd, at the Crown Pottery, Burslem) and the Ellgreave Pottery Co. Ltd (Ellgreave St, Burslem). The business went into receivership in December 1981 then reorganized under the name Wood & Sons in 1982, and produced dinnerware until its closure in 1995.