Mine has no lid and a great big crack in it but that means it needs to live with someone who will love it.
The Pountney factory was in the Fishponds area of Bristol, and is long gone...
The 1960s Long Line design came late in the history in the factory and was created by Honor Elliot, a 23 year old college graduate from Stoke-on-Trent. She was the youngest member of the design team when she came to Bristol in 1959. She used a pre-existing shape; the "BRISTOL KITCHENWARE " range. This was originally designed in the 1930s by Jack Price. It was glazed in pale yellow and pale green with bold labels.
Here's the same shape thirty years later with the underglaze cutlery print...
Some more Long Line shapes...
There are two more jug shapes, and I especially love the measuring jug with double spout.
The Long Line range was featured in the Woman’s Journal ‘House of the Year 1962’ at Coombe Dingle, Bristol, and won a recommendation from the Good Housekeeping Institute, which is printed on the bottom of each piece.
I love the advertising too. This from the 1930s...
This from the 1960s...
And this with my jug and a special hovering cup...
Had a thought about making some advertising posters next year for my folder work. But let's get this year's work finished first. Deadline tomorrow...
P.S. Found this quote from Sarah Levitt's book. Can’t remember whether I used it in my dissertation or not. Poor bloke.
“The cleanliness or otherwise of different jobs created social distinctions. ‘Clay-end workers thought the paintresses and office girls considered themselves above the rest. The atmosphere in those departments was certainly never as blue as it could be elsewhere. The Underglaze-transferers, usually older women, had a particular reputation for earthiness. It was said that, one Christmas Eve in the 1930s, they trapped an unfortunate salesman and sent him home with his private parts embellished with willow pattern! (Anon) Although many teenage girls suffered from the attentions of older men, this story is one of several showing sexual harassment worked both ways at Pountneys.”
