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5 unusual facts about Royal Doulton


Joanne Broadhurst

While playing for the all-conquering Belles, Broadhurst worked as a forklift truck driver for Royal Doulton in Stoke.

John Doulton

John Doulton (November 17, 1793 – May 26, 1873) was an English businessman and manufacturer of pottery, a founder of the firm that later became known as Royal Doulton.

Mary Barbara Bailey

Sister Mary Barbara Bailey, C.R.L., (28 June 1910 – 4 May 2003) was an English Roman Catholic canoness regular who illustrated the original Bunnykins tableware series which was manufactured by the Royal Doulton factory.

Royal Doulton

When the Anglican St. Alban's Church was built in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1887 with Alexandra, Princess of Wales as one of the driving forces, Doulton donated and manufactured an altarpiece, a pulpit and a font.

The Water Company Palace

The French renaissance palace was covered in over 300,000 glazed, multi-color terra cotta tiles imported from the renowned British ceramics maker, Royal Doulton.


Burton, Wiltshire

The altar is crowned with a late nineteenth century reredos, which is a Doulton terracotta panel of the Last Supper by George Tinworth.

Elizabeth Warden

Liz usually gets nervous and repeatedly spills and drops things in Hyacinth's home throughout the series, especially Hyacinth's Royal Doulton cups with the hand-painted periwinkles, much to the devastation of her friend.

Gustave Barnes

Barnes obtained employment at the Doulton pottery works as a designer, painter and modeller, and during his evenings studied at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington.

John Shorter Pty Ltd

John Shorter Pty Ltd, commonly known as Shorters, was an Australian manufacturers’ importing agency company, best known as the Australasian agent for the British ceramics firms Royal Doulton and Mintons.


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