• The business was started by Samuel Harrison Tittensor.

• In 1946 he founded the Washington Pottery in Shelton (Hanley), Stoke-on-Trent.

• July 1949 newspaper article records that Harrison Tittensor 'is Managing Director of both the
  Bridge Street Pottery Co. of Burslem, and the Washington Pottery Ltd. of Shelton'

• It is not certain when the Bridge Street pottery closed. 

The inscription on the mug reads "Mr and Mrs A E Smitten present their compliments and thanks, for your kind assistance, on October 19th, 1940"

Such souveniers were sold as part of the 'Spitfire Fighter Fund' - fund raising took place in towns and villages all over the country.

- See BBC article of the Fighter Fund -  

The Bridge Street Pottery mark printed over a Alfred Meakin Ltd mark

Sergeants Mess
The Durham Light Infantry 

The Bridge Street Pottery Co. 
Burslem 

The crown is the Kings Crown (it was changed to the Queens Crown in 1953)
The VI is for King George VI who reigned from Dec 1936 to his death in February 1952
- so this plate must have been produced in the 1936-52 period

plate and mug from St. Paul's Church in Clarence Street, Penzance. 
On base of both is the maker's mark 'The Bridge Street Pottery Co. Burslem Staffs'. 
Also on the plate 'Hotel Ware, Alfred Meakin Ltd, England' mark on base.

Bridge Street Pottery used undecorated blanks from Alfred Meakin