Location and
period of operation:
Mason's
Ironstone China
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Hanley
|
1968
|
1973
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Mason's
Ironstone China
(as part of the Wedgwood Group)
|
Hanley
|
1973
|
1998
|
Mason's
Ironstone China
(as part of the Wedgwood Group)
|
Barlaston
|
1998
|
2005+
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Earthenware,
and in particular decorated ironstone,
manufacturer at the Broad
Street Works, Shelton
(Hanley), Stoke-on-Trent,
England
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As
far back as 1852 a Francis Morley bought the moulds of C. J. Mason,
inventor of Mason's
Ironstone China.
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Manufacture
of 'Mason's Patent Ironstone China' continued under various owners
and in particular from 1862 as G.
L. Ashworth & Bros - which in 1883 was aquired by the
Goddard family.
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In
March 1968 the business was renamed 'Mason's Ironstone China' in order
to capitalise on the original Mason name. John Stringer Goddard was
the Managing Director at the time.
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In
1973 the business was sold to the Wedgwood Group. John Stringer
Goddard (the third generation to own and manage the business)
continued in a management role until his retirement in 1981.
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In
1998 production of Mason's Ironstone was transfered to Wedgwood's
Barlaston factory and production at the Broad Street works ceased.
The site was cleared in 1999.
"The
post-1968 Mason products included good quality mid-market domestic
earthenware and Mason's Ironstone China produced in the traditional
19th century shapes and patterns.
In 1971 the company was still advertising 'Mandalay' an original
Miles Mason pattern dating from the earliest years of the 19th
century.
Wedgwood continued to produce a small range of traditional
hand-painted Mason's Ironstone China shapes at its Barlaston factory
up to at least 2005"
Michael
Perry, 'A Handbook of British Pottery Manufacturers 1900-2010'
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Previously: G. L. Ashworth
& Bros
Marks used on
ware for identification:
Mason's Ironstone
China
variants of this style of mark
were continued by G.L. Ashworth & Bros Ltd,
Masons's Ironstone China Ltd, and even by Wedgwood in the 21st Centuary
- details
of the Broad Street Works -
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