Portmeirion Factory Shop - Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK.
N 53° 00.040 W 002° 11.283
30U E 554488 N 5872653
The Portmeirion factory shop is located on London Road in Stoke town centre.
Waymark Code: WM10YG1
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/12/2019
Views: 3
The Portmeirion factory shop is located on London Road in Stoke.
An information sign that is part of the self guided Stoke Town Heritage Trail gives the following information about the pottery;
"Portmeirion Pottery was founded by Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis in 1960. Susan had already been designing work for sale in the gift shop at Portmeirion, the Italianate village in North Wales, which had been created by her father, the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. In 1960 they acquired a small pottery in Stoke called A.E.Gray Ltd. adding a second established pottery, Kirkham's Ltd. the following year. This enabled Susan to design shapes as well as surface decoration.
The simplicity of her designs made them immediately popular, including the best selling Botanic Garden pattern. In the year 2000 the parent company's name was changed to Portmeirion Group PLC to reflect the company's leadership in the design and manufacture of objects of beauty for the home, not only in ceramics, but also in a wide range of other materials."
The factory shop stocks four Great British brands of Portmeirion, Spode, Royal Worcester and Pimpernel in one store. Portmeirion's factory shops are the ideal place to buy wonderful gifts for loved ones and everything you need for the dinner table. They have a range of classic or contemporary dinnerware and cookware, as well as those essential table top accessories like placemats and coasters, not to mention stylish homeware and children's gifts.
Their 'seconds' items are of the same high functional quality with 30% off the retail price and great offers throughout the year. (
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