Poole Pottery facts for kids
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| Owner | Denby Pottery Company |
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| Country | Poole, Dorset, England. |
| Introduced | 1873 |
| Previous owners | 1999 – 2001 Orb Estates Ltd 2002 – 2006 Peter Ford 2006 Zemmel & Symonds 2007 – 2011 Lifestyle Group Ltd |
Poole Pottery is a famous British company that makes pottery. It is now owned by the Denby Pottery Company. Their products are made in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
The company started in 1873 in Poole, Dorset, by the sea. They made pottery there for many years. In 1999, the factory moved to a new place in Sopers Lane. It closed down in 2006. Poole Pottery mostly made earthenware, which is a type of clay pottery. They also sometimes made stoneware.
You can see old Poole Pottery items in museums. One famous museum is the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The Story of Poole Pottery
Poole Pottery actually began as "Carter's Industrial Tile Manufactory." This company made tiles and helped fund what would become Poole Pottery. In the 1920s, Mr. Carter (Jesse Carter) teamed up with some talented designers. These included Harold Stabler and Phoebe Stabler, and potters John Adams and Truda Adams (Truda Carter). Together, they formed a new company called "Carter Stabler Adams." They became well-known for making beautiful Art Deco pottery.
The Carter company made many of the ceramic tiles used in London Underground stations. These stations were built in the 1930s. A special thing they made were relief tiles, designed by Stabler. These tiles showed symbols of London. You can still see some of them at stations like Bethnal Green.
"Carter Stabler Adams" later changed its name to "Poole Pottery." During and after World War II, they created many popular pottery lines. Two of these were called Twintone and Traditional. Much of the Traditional range was based on the designs of Truda Carter. She was the main designer in the 1920s. Her original ideas were brought to life by "paintresses." These artists added their own special touch to each handmade piece.
Cool Designs and Artists
In the 1950s, a designer named Robert Jefferson joined Poole Pottery. He worked with other amazing artists. These included Leslie Elsden, who designed the "Aegean" Range. Guy Sydenham was a potter who created the "Atlantis" range. Tony Morris helped develop the early "Delphis" Studio items with Jefferson. Many talented paintresses also worked there, like Carol Cutler, Diana Davies, and the three Wills sisters.
Together, they made two of Poole Pottery's most famous lines: Delphis and Aegean.
Delphis Pottery
The Delphis range is easy to spot! It has bright, lively colors and designs. Artists like Mondrian, Warhol, Matisse, and Pollock inspired these patterns. The Poole Delphis range started in 1963. Guy Sydenham and Robert Jefferson first thought of the idea. Later, Jefferson and Tony Morris developed it further. Each piece of Delphis pottery is truly unique. The decorators themselves created the designs on every item.
Aegean Pottery
The Aegean range was introduced in 1970. It uses special spray-on glazes. Artists used different techniques like sgraffito (scratching through layers) to create patterns. These patterns included abstract shapes, fish, leaves, boats, and country scenes. Aegean was meant to replace Delphis, but it never became as popular.
Twintone Pottery
Poole Pottery (Carter, Stabler and Adams) started making two-colored dishes in the 1930s. They had to stop during World War Two. When they started making them again in the late 1940s, they called the range Twintone. Twintone was used on many different types of dishes, accessories, and decorative items until 1981.
Living Glaze Pottery
Today, Poole Pottery makes giftware using something called "Living Glaze." This is a special way of putting different glazes on the pottery. These glazes react with each other when heated. This creates unique and beautiful results on every single piece!
Changes and New Beginnings
In 2003, the company faced some money problems. It was sold to a businessman named Peter Ford. To help pay off debts, they even sold some old items from the Pottery's museum.
On December 15, 2006, it was announced that the Poole shop would close. This was because of unpaid debts. The company officially went into administration (meaning it was managed by others due to debt) on December 20, 2006. It owed a lot of money to many people.
Poole Pottery came out of administration on February 10, 2007. It was then controlled by Lifestyle Group Ltd. This group also owns Royal Stafford Tableware.
The pottery shop on Poole Quay reopened. It sold Poole Pottery giftware, lighting, and other items. However, this shop closed down in 2017.
The main Poole Pottery factory is now located at the Middleport Pottery in Burslem, Stoke on Trent. It shares space with Burleigh Pottery. This is where Poole Pottery is made today, after the original Poole factory closed.
In June 2011, the Denby Pottery Company bought Poole Pottery.
See also
- Poole Museum (Dorset)
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