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Staffordshire Tea Set Co Ltd |
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Location and period of operation:
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Staffordshire
Tea Set Co Ltd |
Tunstall |
1947 |
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Earthenware manufacturer at the Plex Street Pottery, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
The previous occupier of the Plex Street Pottery was the pottery decorator Frank Buckley - the Staffordshire Tea Set Company grew out of this original business.
In 1960 the directors of the Staffordshire Tea Set Company were E. and C.H. Buckley and the works manager was A. Curzon.
The company had overseas agents in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia.
They made full sized adult ceramics as well as nursery ware and toy tea-sets.
The business is no longer in operation but was known to be still operating in the 1960s
Previously: F
Buckley & Son
(and possibly concurently for part of
the time)
1950 advert for the
Staffordshire Tea Set Company
Pottery Gazette and Glass Trade Review - November 1950
typical side plates and
cup & saucer ware by Staffs Tea Set Co Ltd
religious scenes plates in the "Old English Oak" series
(photos courtesy: Christine Munn)
The Staffs Tea Set Co. were manufacturers of tea ware, bowls (cereal),
breakfast ware, nursery ware, salad ware.
typical nursery ware by Staffs Tea Set Co
Ltd
Marks used on ware for identification:
STAFFS TEASET Co Ltd
PLEX ST. POTTERY
TUNSTALL
MADE IN ENGLAND
the letter 'B' indicates that
the ware was made
under the Wartime Concentration
Scheme
1947-52
The
Old English
Oak
STAFFS TEASET Co Ltd
ENGLAND
'the
Old English Oak'
is the shape pattern name
Plex Street Pottery
1951 OS map 1:1,250
showing the location of the Plex Street Pottery in relationship to Tunstall
Town (bottom right)
1951 OS map 1:1,250
showing the single bottle kiln of the Plex Street Pottery
Plex Street Pottery
Staffordshire Tea Set Co Ltd
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photograph was taken looking along Plex Street towards Roundwell Street
(formerly Well Street) - in the opposite direction to the photo below.
The pottery works were originally St Mary's school-chapel, opened in 1853. By the 1930s it had become part of F Buckley & Son's Staffs Tea Set Company decorating earthenware. Photo from Pinterest (source unknown) |
Plex Street, Tunstall - January
1964
Plex Street Pottery
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photograph was taken looking westwards along Plex Street from the corner
of Roundwell Street (formerly Well Street) in Tunstall.
The building on the right was originally St Mary's school-chapel, opened in 1853. By the 1930s it had become part of F Buckley & Son's Staffs Tea Set Company decorating earthenware. Production had ceased by the 1960s and the works has been demolished and replaced with housing. The houses on the right date from the mid 1800s and like the chapel have been replaced. Courtesy: Staffordshire Past Track (Bert Bentley Collection) |
Roundwell Street, Tunstall -
January 1964
Plex Street Pottery
(right
foreground)
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in the foreground is the Buckley's Pottery building, now demolished and
replaced with housing. Frank Buckley was a decorator operating the Plex
Street pottery during the 1930s and 40s. The company would bring in
blanks from other pottery companies, such as Grindleys, and decorate
them, usually in floral or art deco style.
The camera is looking south east along Roundwell Street from close to Clay Hills. Halfway down on the right is The Victoria Inn, on the corner of Plex Street. Opposite, off to the left is Hoover Street. Right at the bottom on the corner on the left is The White Hart public House with the Worthington brewery advert on the wall. At the bottom, Roundwell Street carries on round to the left, with Nash Peake Street to the right and Ladywell Road straight on. On the left edge, the tall, five storey building with the chimney is the old Oldcourt Pottery on Oldcourt Street and the large building just to the right is the Wolstanton School Board building on Forster Street. Courtesy: Staffordshire Past Track (Bert Bentley Collection) |
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