NOTE: Not to be confused with an unrelated company - James Beech & Son of Longton.

• James Beech was born in 1822 in Tunstall, the son of Joseph Beech, a warehouseman, and Mary Cumberlidge. 

• James Beech was a partner in Beech, Hancock & Co., which operated Swan Bank Pottery in Burslem from 1851 to 1855. 

• The partnership, renamed Beech & Hancock, reopened in about 1857 in Tunstall and operated there until 1876, the last six years at another works named the Swan Bank Pottery. 

• James Beech became the sole proprietor of the business in 1877 and operated the Swan Bank Works under his own name from 1877 until he died in early 1887. The business continued until 1889 when it was taken over by Boulton, Machin & Tennant.  

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the initials probably relate to 
James Beech & Co

Wash set in the Daphne pattern 

relief moulded wash set with printed pattern consisting 
of Daphne flowers in the aesthetic style   

the initials probably relate to 
James Beech & Co