Soho Pottery Co

Soho Pottery Co (Ltd)

Location and period of operation:

Soho Pottery Co

Tunstall

Cobridge

1904

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: Smith & Binnall (at the SOHO works)

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

High Street
Tunstall

Soho Pottery Ltd
Earthenware manufacturers

from..... 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, England

August 1937
The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review

Solian Wall Decorations
SOHO Pottery Ltd
Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent

June 1939
The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review

platter by SOHO Pottery in the Avondale pattern

lidded jug with the TUNSTALL mark