Twyford Bathrooms
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| Private (subsidiary of the Sanitec Group) | |
| Industry | Bathroom fittings |
| Founded | 1849 |
| Founder | Thomas Twyford & Thomas William Twyford |
| Headquarters | Alsager, Cheshire, England |
| Products | Sanitaryware |
| Website | http://www.twyfordbathrooms.com/ |
Twyford Bathrooms is a manufacturer of bathroom fixtures based in Alsager, Cheshire, England.
Thomas Twyford and his son Thomas William Twyford established what is now known as Twyford Bathrooms in 1849 in Bath Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The worldwide demands for new sanitaryware soon required the building of an all new factory in 1887 at Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent. This was the first purpose built bathrooms factory in the world.
Today it is owned by the Sanitec Group, which is the largest European manufacturer of sanitaryware.
In 1999, Twyford Bathrooms were made holders of the Royal Warrant of Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1680: Joshua Twyford (1640-1729) was the first Twyford to make commercial pottery near Shelton Old Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Specimens of his work can be seen at the Potteries Museum in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, including a salt glazed stoneware teapot inscribed 'Sarah Twyford'.
1729: Joshua Twyford died. The precise date production ceased at Twyford’s original factory is not known, but the Twyford family continued potting in the district with the possible lapse of a generation.
1827: Thomas Twyford was born.
1849: Thomas Twyford established two factories where washbasins and closet pans of an elementary nature were made. The first was his Bath Street Works in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The factory still exists but the street has been renamed Garth Street. The second was his Abbey Works in Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent. Twyford commenced exporting to America, Russia, Australia, France, Germany, Spain and many other countries.
1849, 23 September: Thomas William Twyford was born, in Hanover Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
1870: The "Annus Mirabilis" of the water closet. 1870 was the start of thirty years of massive growth of the Twyford company and a flood of sanitary invention.
1872: Thomas Twyford died. Thomas William, at age 23, took over the running of the blossoming company.
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