Soho Pottery Co (Ltd) |
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Location and period of operation:
Soho
Pottery Co |
Tunstall Cobridge |
1904 1918 |
1906 (1918?) 1944 |
Earthenware manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent
The Soho Pottery Co was established by Samuel J. Simpson in 1904 at the Soho Pottery Works, Tunstall
In 1918 the company moved to the extensive Elder Works, Cobridge - which they reconstructed and enlarged.
Samuel J. Simpson's sons Samuel E. M. Simpson and Thomas Simpson joined the business and after the death of their father in 1918 they continued the management of the business. Samuel looking after commercial matters and Thomas, production.
In 1944 the company name was changed to Simpsons (Potters) Ltd
Joseph Palin Thorley was Director of Design for Soho Pottery from 1918 to 1920 or 1921.
Thorley was apprenticed at Wedgwood's and fought in the trenches in France before going to the Soho Pottery.
Thorley went from the Soho Pottery 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 18th century museum objects.
Formerly: Ernest Farmiloe
Subsequently: Simpsons (Potters) Ltd (at the Elder Works)
High Street
Tunstall
Soho Pottery Ltd
Earthenware manufacturersfrom..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'
Queen's Green
The Original and Best
SOHO Pottery Ltd
S.E.M. and T. Simpson
Elder Works, Cobridge
Stoke-on-Trent, EnglandAugust 1937
The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review
Solian Wall Decorations
SOHO Pottery Ltd
Cobridge, Stoke-on-TrentJune 1939
The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review
platter by SOHO Pottery in the Avondale pattern
lidded jug with the TUNSTALL mark
Marks and initials used on ware for identification:
Solian Ware
Ambassador Ware
Chanticleer Ware
Queen's Green
trade names used by Soho Pottery
Asiatic Pheasants
S P C
T
SOHO Pottery Companty
Tunstall
Asiatic Pheasants is the pattern name
![]() ERNEST FARMILOE Tunstall England |
![]() SOHO POTTERY LTD Tunstall England |
mark used c.1904 to 1906 when
the SOHO Pottery
was at Tunstall
AVONDALE is the pattern name
The mark on the left is that of Ernest
Farmiloe
who operated at the Soho Works in 1904
Semi-Porcelain
SOHO POTTERY LIMITED
Tunstall
England
mark used c.1901 to 1906 when
the SOHO Pottery
was at Tunstall
TORONTO
SOHO POTTERY LIMITED
Cobridge
England
mark used after 1906 when the
SOHO Pottery
moved to Cobridge
TORONTO is the pattern name
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