Josiah Spode

The habit became custom and within a few decades Edwardian Britain, fueled by entrepreneurs such as Josiah Spode, who invented the bone china that kept the tea hot in fine cups, was sitting down at five o'clock for a ritual that included music, servants and its own etiquette.

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Josiah Spode made this process famous in the late eighteenth century, producing highly decorated china that was also inexpensive.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Josiah Spode made this process famous in the late eighteenth century, producing highly decorated china that was also inexpensive.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Josiah Spode made this process famous in the late eighteenth century, producing highly decorated china that was also inexpensive.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Josiah Spode made this process famous in the late eighteenth century, producing highly decorated china that was also inexpensive.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

The festival hub will transform the Spode Pottery factory, a 9.4 acre listed site founded by Josiah Spode in 1770, which has stood empty since 2008 when production at the factory was discontinued.

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