Bridge Street Pottery Co






 

Location and period of operation:

Bridge Street Pottery Co

Burslem

1915

post 1949

 

Decorator and wholesaler of earthenware and china dinner sets and Hotel and Catering Ware at Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

The Bridge Street Pottery Co. was a decorator and wholesaler that did not produce its own earthenware and china. Instead, the company purchased undecorated "blanks" from other potteries and applied its own designs. It appears that most if not all of the blanks were supplied by Alfred Meakin Ltd.  

  • The business was started by Samuel Harrison Tittensor. 

  • In 1946 he founded the Washington Pottery in Shelton (Hanley), Stoke-on-Trent.

  • July 1949 newspaper article records that Harrison Tittensor 'is Managing Director of both the
    Bridge Street Pottery Co. of Burslem, and the Washington Pottery Ltd. of Shelton'

  • It is not certain when the Bridge Street pottery closed but it was post 1949.  

  • Samuel H Tittensor died in 1992.


 


 



"Mr Tittensor is Managing Director of both the
Bridge Street Pottery Co. of Burslem, and
the Washington Pottery Ltd. of Shelton"

Staffordshire Sentinel Newspaper
30 July 1949 

 


 


announcement of the death of Harrison Tittensor 
- the founder of the Bridge Street Pottery
 

Staffordshire Sentinel Newspaper
29 April 1992

 


 

Bridge Street Pottery
Catalogue

 


Bridge Street Pottery
Catalogue for Wholesale & Export

- click for the catalogue -

 

scan of the catalogue kindly supplied by Paul Mayo

 


 


Cup in the Rosaline pattern 

 

this pattern appears in the Bridge Street catalogue

 


 

'Spitfire Fighter Fund' 

 


Fighter Plane Fund
Derby

The inscription on the mug reads "Mr and Mrs A E Smitten present their compliments and thanks, for your kind assistance, on October 19th, 1940"

Such souvenirs were sold as part of the 'Spitfire Fighter Fund' - fund raising took place in towns and villages all over the country.

- See BBC article of the Fighter Fund 

 


The Bridge Street Pottery mark printed over a Alfred Meakin Ltd mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Badged Ware 

 


Badged Ware
Clubs, Restaurants, Institutions, Etc.

from Bridge Steet Catalogue 

 


 


Sergeants Mess
The Durham Light Infantry 

The Bridge Street Pottery Co. 
Burslem 

The logo is of the cap badge of the 
Durham Light Infantry

The crown is the Kings Crown (it was changed to the Queens Crown in 1953)
The VI is for King George VI who reigned from Dec 1936 to his death in February 1952
- so this plate must have been produced in the 1936-52 period

 

 


 

plate and mug from St. Paul's Church in Clarence Street, Penzance. 
On base of both is the maker's mark 'The Bridge Street Pottery Co. Burslem Staffs'. 
Also on the plate 'Hotel Ware, Alfred Meakin Ltd, England' mark on base.

Bridge Street Pottery used undecorated blanks from Alfred Meakin

 


 

 


Wall Nook Methodist 

 

 


 


City Golf Club
St. David's 

these marks clearly show that the manufacturer of the white ware blanks was Alfred Meakin 

photos courtesy: Margaret Nolan 

 


 

 

Marks used on ware for identification:

Bridura

'BRIDURA' used as a trade mark
probably a contraction of 'Bridge' and 'durability'

 


 

BRIDGE STREET POTTERY Co


 


THE BRIDGE STREET POTTERY Co
BURSLEM
STAFFS

THE BRIDGE STREET POTTERY Co
BURSLEM
STAFFS

Alfred Meakin
England
Royal Marigold

these marks clearly show that the manufacturer of the white ware blanks was Alfred Meakin 


 BRIDGE STREET POTTERY
BURSLEM
England

 


 

    
BRIDGE STREET POTTERY Co
BURSLEM
Bridura
Hotel Ware

the Bridge Street mark on the left is printed over
the Alfred Meakin mark

 


Questions, comments, contributions? email: Steve Birks


 

 



Page History:

Page created 26 Nov 2020

Updated 22 Nov 2021: Catalogue added

Updated 26 June 2023: Page tidied up; 'Bridura' marks added.

Updated 24 Aug 2025: Introductory section expanded; St. David's City Golf Club ware added.