KEELE ST POTTERY Co Ltd CERAMIC SOOTY EGG CUPS (2) (Register...

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KEELE ST POTTERY Co Ltd CERAMIC SOOTY EGG CUPS (2) (Registered By Sooty Concessions Ltd No 743610) (Rare)
(Earthenware manufacturer at Keele St, Tunstall (to c.1958) and then at Meir Airport, Longton, as part of the Staffordshire Potteries Group.
The company was founded in 1915 by Charles H. Bowers, Elijah Brookes, J. A Robinson and H. W. Pitt. It closed in 1941 under the wartime Concentration scheme, but Bower’s son, Charles Griffiths Bowers, re-activated the business in 1946 and between 1946 and 1948 established or acquired other pottery companies that came to be known, collectively, as the ‘Keele Street (Pottery) Group’. The Keele Street Pottery Co. Ltd, as part of the group, became a subsidiary of Staffordshire Potteries Ltd and (from 1958) operated from the Meir Airport site.)