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After the death of his father, Thomas C Wild became sole proprietor of Thomas Wild & Co in 1898. The factory was already a thriving business producing tea, coffee and dinner ware under the Royal Albert name. In 1905 it moved from the Albert Works to St Mary's Works which was also based in Longton, Staffordshire. It continued to grow and became a major contributor to the growing export of china from the UK.
In 1964 the company was purchased by Pearson & Co, making it part of Allied English Potteries which was later to merge with the Royal Doulton Group. In 1975 Royal Albert extended their ranges to include giftware in many of the popular ranges such as Old Country Roses, which was first produced in 1962. Items such as clocks, candlesticks and even telephones introduced. Today Royal Albert continues to be one of the major names within the Royal Doulton Group.
The objective of this gallery is to display photographs of the many discontinued designs from the Royal Albert factory. The gallery will include retired tableware, collectibles and giftware. We hope that this will serve as a useful point of reference for those people trying to identify their obsolete dinner sets, tea services and collectables.
Due to the number of discontinued lines and therefore images it has been necessary to place the images under their corresponding first letter to reduce download time. So if you do not know the first letter of your discontinued design name, we are afraid it's a case of searching through.
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