F Buckley & Son




 

Location and period of operation:

F Buckley & Son

Tunstall

c. 1930s

 c. 1940s

 Frank Buckley was a decorator operating at the Plex Street Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.

  • They used blanks (undecorated ware) from pottery manufacturers and then added their own decoration - often in an art deco style or floral pattern. 

  • Buckley was associated with H J Colclough and W H Grindley.

  • The Staffordshire Tea Set Company grew out of this original business. 

 

Subsequently: Staffordshire Tea Set Company

 


Buckley decorated ware - "Silver Queen" pattern

 


"Apple Blossom" pattern

These examples used a GRINDLEY blank


unnamed pattern - Frank Buckley & Son 

 


Made in England
F BUCKLEY & SON 
PLEX POTTERY 
TUNSTALL STAFFS


A Frank Buckley Production 

the Buckley mark is overprinted on the
blank ware manufacturers mark 

 

 

The backstamps show the GRINDLEY ship but the name
has been blacked out and
F BUCKLEY & SON PLEX POTTERY TUNSTALL STAFFS
has been printed underneath


Plex Street Pottery 

The pottery works were originally St Mary's school-chapel, opened in 1853. It was used by Frank Buckley as his works for decorating earthenware blanks - by the 1930s it had become part of F Buckley & Son's Staffs Tea Set Company.

Photo from Pinterest (source unknown)

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Questions/comments/contributions? email: Steve Birks