• The business was founded by Leslie H. Bradley in about 1927 and operated as the Salisbury Crown China Co.

• During the 1941-46 period the works were probably closed as part of the Wartime Concentration Scheme. 

• In the 1947 Pottery Gazette Leslie H. Bradley was recorded as managing director and S. C. Bradley as Works Manager. 

• In late 1949 the name was changed to Salisbury China Co. 

• In the 1960 Pottery Gazette the officers were recorded as: managing director - Leslie H. Bradley; works manager - S. C. Bradley; export sales director - A. G. Devall; home sales director - S. B. Young; London Sales - David Bradley; decorating manager - J. S. M. Graham.

• In November 1961 the business was purchased by a member of the Thomas Poole Group (probably Royal Stafford China) and operated as a subsidiary of Thomas Poole and Gladstone China Ltd. Manufacturing was moved to Chadwick Street, Longton.

• In 1973 the business became part of the Alfred Clough group of companies following the sale of Thomas Poole and Gladstone China Ltd interests to Alfred Clough Ltd. 

Pottery Gazette Reference Book 1949 

Pottery Gazette Reference Book 1960 

c.1940

c.1940

c.1952+

perhaps post the 1961 takeover by the Thomas Poole Group

c.1927-37

'Bradley' was the name of the founder of the business

c.1937-41 ?

c.1946+

c.1946+

c.1946+ 

c.1959-61

Eggshell bone china is just very fine bone china 
- no eggshells involved!