• In 1857 (1860 according to Jewitt) Beech & Hancock took over the Church Bank Works from R. Beswick and continued there until 1861. 

• In 1861/2 they then moved to the Swan Bank Works, Tunstall. 

• In 1876/7 the partnership was dissolved and James Beech continued on his own. 

Church Bank Works. 

The Church Bank Works were built in 1842 by Mr. Robert Beswick (of Chell, the present owner), by whom they were carried on till 1860, and afterwards successively by the firms of Beech & Hancock, Eardley & Hammersley, and Ralph Hammersley alone. 

Swan Bank Works. 

This is one of the oldest manufactories in Tunstall. In the beginning of the present century it belonged to and was worked by Mr. Ralph Hall, and is still the property of his descendants, his sole executor being Mr. Frederick J. Bowers, by whom (as successor to his father, Mr. George F. Bowers) the Brownhills Pottery was carried on until that concern was formed into a company. Mr. Ralph Hall was succeeded in the manufactory by Messrs. Podmore Walker & Co., by whom it was carried on until about 1862, when it passed into the hands of Messrs. Beech & Hancock, by whom it was much improved, and from them to its present occupier, James Beech. 

The productions of the firm are the ordinary classes of earthenware and stoneware for the home trade. In these wares dinner, tea, toilet, and all the usual services are largely produced in every variety of style and of various degrees of ornamentation, both in "sponged," printed, painted, enamelled, gilt and lustred styles. Stoneware jugs and other articles are also largely made and are of excellent quality, as are also black ware and other jardinieres flower vases, &c. 

Llewellyn Jewitt, Ceramic Art of Great Britain, 1878

the registration diamond shows that the design
was first registered on the 5th July 1861

syrup jug with a pewter lid in the JEDDO patten

other companies, notably J &M P Bell & Co and William Adams & Sons produced ware in a pattern called Jeddo 

Jeddo was an anglicised name for the Japanese port of Edo, Tokyo which was first opened to foreigners in 1869

JEDDO
BEECH & HANCOCK 

the Victorians had a fascination for oriental places and as Asia started to open up many potters used names which they thought represented the Far East