Staffordshire Tea Set Co Ltd






 

Location and period of operation:

Staffordshire Tea Set Co Ltd

Tunstall

1947

no longer in operation

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 picture plates in the "Old English Oak" series

 


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


 

STAFFS TEASET Co Ltd
The
Old English
Oak
S
TAFFS 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

This 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 

This 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) 

 

On the right 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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