Soho Pottery Co (Ltd)

Location and period of operation:

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)

 

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High Street
Tunstall

Soho Pottery Ltd
Earthenware manufacturers

from..... 1907 Staffordshire Sentinel 
'Business Reference Guide to The Potteries, Newcastle & District'

 

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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

 

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

June 1939
The Pottery Gazette & Glass Trade Review

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platter by SOHO Pottery in the Avondale pattern 

 

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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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Soho Pottery 

Elder Pottery Works

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