Dudson Brothers is a British pottery company that was founded in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1800 by Richard Dudson. The company has been family owned and operated ever since, and is one of the oldest tableware manufacturers in England.
In the early years, Dudson Brothers produced a wide variety of domestic pottery, including Staffordshire figures, relief moulded stoneware, jasperware, ebony, and mosaic ware. However, in the 1880s, James Thomas Dudson, the great-grandson of the founder, identified a need to serve specifically the hospitality market, in view of the increase in travel created by the railways. He made significant changes in production, and by the 1890s, the company was concentrating on producing a particularly strong type of vitrified china, developed by James's father.
In 1898, the company was renamed Dudson Brothers Ltd., and it quickly became one of the leading suppliers of tableware to the hotel and catering more...
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