Globe Pottery Co Ltd

Location and period of operation:

(See sources)

The firm was taken over by Ridgways and continued from Messrs Ridgways addresses in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent from c.1934 

 Globe Pottery was included in appendix 4 of the book "British Potters and Potters today (published 1956) and listed as "Ash Hall".
This was the headquarters of the Ridgway Pottery group.

From 1940-52 the North Staffordshire Pottery Co. Ltd were operating at the Globe Pottery site, this company was also taken over by Ridgway Potteries Ltd in 1952.

Globe Pottery can be located on this 1924 OS map of Cobridge (to the right of the Athletics Ground)

 

Globe Pottery mark used c.1930-34

On the marks 'Cobridge' was replaced by 'Shelton' from c.1934
From 1954 onwards 'Co Ltd' was omitted from the marks.

The above information may not be available
for all potters - if you have information to
help complete the records then I would be
happy to include it.
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