Soho Pottery Co

Location and period of operation:

  (See sources)

At the SOHO Pottery Works, Tunstall, 1901-06
At the Elder Works, Cobridge, 1906-44

Formerly Smith & Binnall (at the SOHO works)

Subsequently Simpsons (Potters) Ltd (at the Elder Works)

Joseph Palin Thorley was Director of Design for Soho Pottery from 1918 to 1920 or 1921.   
Thorley apprenticed at Wedgwood's and fought in the trenches in France before going to the Soho Pottery.  Thorley went from
Soho to New Chelsea, to Allerton's before immigrating the U.S. in 1927.  
There he worked for the best potteries like Hall and Taylor Smith & Taylor, before going to Williamsburg to make reproductions of their 18
century museum objects. 

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email: Steve Birks

updated: 21 March 2004