Tableware Blog

See below for the latest discontinued china added to our website. Are your replacement china pieces amongst it? Denby "Heritage Veranda" - Teapot Denby Imperial Blue" - Dinner Plates Branksome Two Tone - Grey & Yellow - Teapot and Mugs Booths "Real Old Willow" - Starter Plates, Tea Plates, Cereal Bowls, Tea Cups Wedgwood Windsor" - Teapot Royal Worcester "Wooster Bear" - Double Handed Mug Denby "Sonnet" - Dinner Plates Denby "Greystone - Mugs Churchill "Kabul" - Cereal Bowls Denby "Potters Wheel (Rust)" - Dinner Plate and Tea Plates Marks & Spencer "Blaize" - Mugs Johnson Bros "Eternal Beau" -...

Paragon China was founded in 1897 in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, originally operating as the Star China Company under Herbert Aynsley and Hugh Irving. Around 1900, the name “Paragon” began to appear on its wares, and by 1919, the business formally adopted the name Paragon China Company Ltd. The company quickly gained a reputation for producing high-quality bone china tea-ware, which it exported to markets across the British Empire. During the 1930s, Paragon expanded into dinnerware and introduced modern electric kilns, making it one of the first smokeless potteries in the area. The company enjoyed the prestige of royal recognition, supplying bespoke...

Due to spiralling business costs this last year we have reduced the frequency of our packaging and dispatch days from daily to twice weekly. It can be up to 4 working days before your order is dispatched and 10 working days during busy periods such as Christmas.  For UK orders our last dispatch day before Christmas is Friday 20th December 2024. While we will endeavour to dispatch all outstanding orders on this day. we are unable to guarantee any orders placed after midnight on Sunday 8th December 2024.  All European, US and Canadian orders for Christmas should be placed by midnight Sunday 1st...

As one of the original tableware replacement services, with over 30 years in the business, we have seen a few changes in the used tableware marketplace.  The mid to late 90s saw massive growth in the Internet for business, and with our first website we were transformed from a market and fair based business, to an online one, servicing the entire world.  In 1999 eBay UK launched having taken the US by storm and so began our journey into e-commerce, culminating in our ability to take payment via our own website in the early 2000s. Fast forward another decade or...

It is doubtful that when Jesse Carter bought up a broken down pottery site in Poole, Dorset in 1873, he had any idea of the impact this would have on the future of UK pottery. In the early years the business was tough and concentrated on architectural ceramics but also became well know for the quality and design of its production of decorative tiling. By the 1920's, now under the direction of Jesse's son Owen Carter, the pottery had become established in the production of innovative and colourful ceramics. In 1921, two established designers John Adams and Harold Stabler joined the Carter family business...