| 1890 | Wiltshaw & Robinson is formed as a partnership between JF Wiltshaw, JA Robinson and WH Robinson |
| 1894 | Wiltshaw & Robinson’s backstamp changes from the Ribbon mark to the Crown Mark |
| 1911 | Partnership dissolved leaving JF Wiltshaw in sole ownership. |
| 1914 | Outbreak of First World War |
| 1918 | First World War ends |
| 1918 | JF Wiltshaw dies at Stoke Railway station. His son Frederick Cuthbert takes over the running of the pottery. |
| 1925 | First of the embossed designs is produced |
| 1926 | Carlton Ware backstamp changes from the Crown Mark to the Script Mark |
| 1928 | Wiltshaw & Robinson, Carlton Ware produce bone china |
| 1939 | Outbreak of Second World War |
| 1952 | Restrictions on the pottery industry lifted after the war |
| 1952 | Carlton Ware introduces a backstamp with the inclusion of ‘Handpainted’ to reflect lifting of restrictions. |
| 1958 | Carlton Ware becomes a Limited company |
| 1966 | Frederick Cuthbert Wiltshaw dies |
| 1966 | Arthur Wood & Company (Longport) Ltd takes over the Carlton Ware factory |
| 1974 | Roger Michell & Danka Napiorkowska of Lustre Pottery license Carlton Ware to produce their Walking Ware designs |
| 1987 | County Potteries Plc, a holding company purchases Carlton Ware later the same year they are renamed Carlton & Kent |
| 1989 | Carlton & Kent go into receivership - in May the trade name, shape and pattern books and some moulds purchased by Grosvenor Ceramic Hardware Ltd. |
| 1990 | Carlton Ware relaunched |
| 1997 | Trade name, master moulds, pattern books purchased by Frank Salmon of
FJ Publications
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