Pottery Firm Jubilant as Royal Event Boosts RevenuesThe Queen's Diamond Jubilee has provided a financial boost for a Staffordshire pottery firm which is on target to double its predicted sales.The Birmingham Post (England)
In 1882, doulton purchased the small factory of Pinder, Bourne & Co, at Nile Street in Burslem, Staffordshire – bringing doulton right to the heart of The Potteries. Doulton proved increasingly popular. because of the artistic direction of John Slater, who worked with a wide variety of figur...
The Inside Story Royal Graftonfine bone china (A.B. Jones & Sons Ltd) - Founded c1900 Staffordshire, England by Alfred Jones. Some Staffordshire potteries thrived and other Stoke-on-Trent makers like Royal Grafton bone china (a family firm and very nice quality maker) went to the wall. Wh...
Born near Newcastle under Lyme in 1775, the son of a gardener, William Pegg worked in a pottery from the age of 10 and by the age of thirteen was already an accomplished self taught flower painter on earthenware bodies. At the age of 15William Pegg started an apprenticeship as a china p...
By the early 1920s Wild owned or had controlling interests in about 15 North Staffordshire potteries.Thomas Wild's sons Thomas E. Wild and Frederick C. Wild joined the business in the early years of the 20th century and were admitted into partnership with their father in 1917, the business ...