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96-601: A gastropub and was awarded the title of TimeOut London Best Gastropub 2007. The London bus routes are 3 , 37 , 42 , 68 , 196 , 201 , 322 , 468 , P13 , school route 690 and night buses N3 and N68 . Direct rail services are available from West Dulwich railway station to Victoria (via the Southeastern Metro Bromley South line) as well as limited service to Blackfriars at peak hours. Nearby railway stations offer services to other destinations: London Bridge can be reached from
144-463: A frieze of potters and Sir Henry Doulton over the original main entrance, executed by Tinworth. In 1980 Pearson purchased Fairey Holdings, which historically had been well known for its aircraft . In the next few years some parts of Doulton were spun off, including the glass and sanitaryware divisions, Doulton Engineering (brought under the management of Fairey, with the insulator division merged with Allied Insulators in 1985). The Churchbank factory
192-473: A large facade in buff terracotta, including life-size statues of "British queens" by Henry Charles Fehr , sculpted coats of arms and other large ornamental elements. This was somewhat old-fashioned for 1900, and the new taste for Art Nouveau favoured the glazed white "Carrara" material, which remained popular through to the Art Deco of the 1930s, often combined with bespoke decoration in bright colours, as at
240-540: A number of private schools in or near the area: Dulwich College , Dulwich Prep London , Oakfield Preparatory School , and Rosemead Preparatory School. West Dulwich has a Non-League football club Wanderers F.C. who play at Belair Park . This club is famous for winning the FA Cup five times between 1872 and 1878. 967 - Edgar the Peaceful granted Dilwihs to a thane named Earl Aelfheah. Dilwihs meant 'meadow where
288-610: A post-WWII merger) Mintons . These brands are now owned by WWRD Holdings Limited ( Waterford Crystal , Wedgwood , Royal Doulton), based in Barlaston near Stoke-on-Trent . On 2 July 2015, the acquisition of WWRD by the Finnish company Fiskars Corporation was completed. The Royal Doulton company began as a partnership between John Doulton , Martha Jones, and John Watts, as Doulton bought (with £100) an interest in an existing factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth , London, where Watts
336-410: A series of young girls in bathing costumes, in a mild version of Art Deco . Figures continued to be important throughout the 20th century, but the peak of quality in modelling and painting is generally thought to have been between the world wars. The well-known artist Frank Brangwyn designed a pattern for a dinner service in 1930 (see gallery), which continued to be made for some time. He created
384-624: A single piece. There were ranges of small Gothic arches, columns and capitals. When the Anglican St. Alban's Church was built in Copenhagen , Denmark, in 1887 with Alexandra, Princess of Wales as one of the driving forces, Doulton donated and manufactured an altarpiece , a pulpit and a font . They were executed in terracotta with glazed details to the design of Tinworth. The Hotel Russell in Russell Square (1900) has
432-619: Is the Doulton Fountain [ de ] , now in Glasgow Green , given by Sir Henry Doulton for the International Exhibition of 1888 . When the over life-size statue at the top was destroyed in a lightning strike in 1901, Doulton paid for a second hand-made statue to be produced. Sir Henry's mausoleum is another fine example of Doulton's exterior terracottas, as are the pedimental sculptures for
480-555: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages West Dulwich West Dulwich ( / ˈ d ʌ l ɪ tʃ / DUL -itch ) is a neighbourhood in South London on the southern boundary of Brockwell Park, which straddles the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Southwark . Croxted Road and South Croxted Road mark the boundary between Southwark to
528-754: Is the Knight's Hill railway tunnel. This second Knight's Hill includes the hilly land between the western end of Thurlow Park Road (South Circular), Peabody Hill and Lovelace Road, where the adjoining Rosendale allotments in Dulwich stand today. The green area is still marked as Knight's Hill on detailed maps, but to avoid confusion is not normally named on modern street maps. Both areas have similar origins, first mentioned as belonging to Thomas Knyght in 1545, and were known as Knight's Hill Common and Knight's Hill Farm, respectively. The train line between North Dulwich railway station and Tulse Hill railway station runs through
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#1732776118511576-641: The Dulwich Estate in West Dulwich between Herne Hill and Knight's Hill . The Old College Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is on the east side of Gallery Road . Confusingly, there are two areas called Knight's Hill nearby; the better known area is the residential area and electoral ward in West Norwood by the road called Knights Hill . But there is a hill to the north, in West Dulwich near Thurlow Park Road, known as Knight's Hill , in which
624-645: The Turkey Cafe in Leicester , also of 1900. William James Neatby was the Royal Doulton's chief designer from 1890 to 1901 and designed some of the finest Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) architectural ceramics and sculptures. Everard's Printing Works is a leading surviving example of an exterior in Doulton's Carrara glazed architectural terra-cotta . One of the largest schemes they made
672-524: The "art" pieces; at first they were fired in the open kiln with other wares, but later saggars were used. They were not especially profitable, sometimes not profitable at all, but there were huge profits in other parts of the business. Like other manufacturers, Doulton took great trouble with the wares submitted to international exhibitions, where it was often a medal winner. The period 1870–1900 saw "the great years of Doulton's art stoneware", which remains popular with collectors. In 1882, Doulton purchased
720-526: The Grade I listed All Saints Church, West Dulwich , home of the Lambeth Orchestra, which burned down in 2000 but reopened on the same site in 2006 thanks to the sustained work of parishioners and the local community; Kingswood House , a Grade II Victorian mansion; and The Rosendale pub, which is a historic coaching house that still retains the original Royal Doulton tiles. It was redeveloped into
768-597: The V1 flying bombs & V-2 rockets caused widespread damage to Dulwich. 1965 - Dulwich became part of the new London Borough of Southwark and London Borough of Lambeth . Royal Doulton Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815. Operating originally in Vauxhall , London, and later moving to Lambeth , in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem , Stoke-on-Trent , in
816-398: The centre of English pottery. From the start, the backbone of the business was a wide range of utilitarian wares, mostly stonewares , including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later extending to drain pipes, lavatories, water filters, electrical porcelain and other technical ceramics. From 1853 to 1901, its wares were marked Doulton & Co. , then from 1901, when a royal warrant
864-510: The century. By 1897 the total employees exceeded 4,000. Manufacturing of circular ceramic sewage pipes began in 1846, and was highly successful; Henry Doulton set up his own company specializing in this, Henry Doulton and Co., the first business to make these. This merged with the main business in 1854. His brother John Junior also later set up his own pipe-making business. Previously sewers were just channels made of brick, which began to leak as they aged. The 1846–1860 cholera pandemic , and
912-514: The clay, these burnt away in the kiln. By 1871, Henry Doulton, John's son, launched a studio at the Lambeth pottery, and offered work to designers and artists from the nearby Lambeth School of Art . The first to be engaged was George Tinworth followed by artists such as the Barlow family ( Florence, Hannah , and Arthur), Frank Butler, Mark Marshall, Eliza Simmance and John Eyre . John Bennett
960-677: The company going public at the start of 1899. In 1901 King Edward VII awarded the Burslem factory the Royal Warrant , allowing that part of the business to adopt new markings and a new name, Royal Doulton. The bathroom ceramics and other utilitarian wares initially continued to be branded Doulton and Co. The company added products during the first half of the 20th century, and the tableware and decorative wares tended to shift from stonewares to high-quality bone china . Figurines in fashionable styles became increasingly important, for example
1008-630: The department store Harrods (1880s). By this time Doulton was popular for stoneware and ceramics, under the artistic direction of John Slater , who worked with figurines , vases, character jugs, and decorative pieces designed by the prolific Leslie Harradine . Lambeth continued to make studio pottery in small quantities per design, often in stoneware and typically ornamental forms like vases, while Burslem made larger quantities of more middle market bone china tablewares and figures. By 1904 over 1,200 people were employed at Burslem alone. The retirement and death of Sir Henry Doulton, both in 1897, led to
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#17327761185111056-552: The design, but specified that the factory painters actually decorating the pieces be allowed some freedom in interpreting his designs. 1938, Doulton acquired the works of George Skey and Co. in Tamworth , Staffordshire, which had been producing drain pipes, chimney pots and chemical stoneware. Doulton modified the factory to produce a range of technical ceramics, including porcelain insulators , chemical porcelain, grinding media and for other applications. A high voltage laboratory for
1104-414: The dill grew'. 1066 - King William I of England became owner of Dulwich, taking the land from King Harold II of England Lordship Lane was the eastern boundary of Dulwich Manor with Friern Manor and Croxted Road (formerly Croks Street Lane) the western boundary with Lord Thurlow's estate. 1538 - Dulwich ceased to be the property of Bermondsey Abbey following the abbey's dissolution. 1544 - Dulwich
1152-564: The east and Lambeth to the west. The suburb of West Dulwich dates back to the 17th century when the often flooded land known as Dulwich Common was acquired and drained by Edward Alleyn 's estate. West Dulwich has two main parades of shops, the main one being on the Park Hall road junction, where Croxted Road becomes South Croxted Road and the other on Rosendale Road. In addition to the College , other buildings of interest are Belair House;
1200-719: The hill. Today the Peabody Hill estate lies on the western side of Tulse Hill with the Rosendale Road allotments on the top. West Dulwich forms part of the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency whose current member of Parliament is Helen Hayes MP of the Labour Party . At the local government level, West Dulwich is split between Dulwich Village and Dulwich Wood wards in the London Borough of Southwark and West Dulwich ward in London Borough of Lambeth . Dulwich
1248-399: The name Doulton & Co. in 1854 after the retirement of John Watts in 1853, and a merger with Henry Doulton and Co. (see below), although the trading name of Doulton & Watts continued to be used for decades. For some of the 19th century there were three different businesses, run by the sons of John Doulton, and perhaps with cross-ownership, which later came back together by the end of
1296-555: The nearby North Dulwich or Tulse Hill stations by the Southern Metro via Peckham Rye line. The nearest London Underground station is Brixton on the Victoria line . Belair Park is located in West Dulwich, and Brockwell Park , Dulwich Park and Dulwich Wood are all within walking distance of West Dulwich. The Rosendale Allotments, which were established in 1908, are on an 18-acre (73,000 m ) site owned by
1344-679: The potential of the material". As the company became interested in diversifying from its utilitarian wares into more decorative objects, it developed a number of earthenware and stoneware bodies. The so-called "Lambeth faience" (from 1872) was "a somewhat heavily potted creamware much used in decorative plaques and vases", often with underglaze painting. Other bodies were called "Impasto" (1879); "Silicon" (1880), "a vitrified unglazed stoneware decorated with coloured clays"; "Carrara" (1887), white earthenware, also used as architectural terracotta; "Marquetrie" (1887), "marbled clays in checker work", then glazed; "Chine" impressed with fabrics to texture
1392-567: The range later. Kitchen stonewares such as storage jars and mixing bowls, and laboratory and manufacturing ceramics, were other long-standing specialities. Further facilities were set up for making these in Paisley in Scotland, Smethwick , St Helens near Liverpool , and Rowley Regis in England, and eventually Paris. By the 1860s Henry Doulton became interested in more artistic wares than
1440-427: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosendale&oldid=1131990103 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1488-576: The small factory of Pinder, Bourne & Co, at Nile Street in Burslem , Staffordshire, which placed Doulton in the region known as The Potteries . Doulton also manufactured architectural terracotta (in fact usually stoneware), mainly at Lambeth, and would execute commissions for monumental sculpture in terracotta. Their late Victorian catalogues contained a wide range of architectural elements with, for example, tall Tudor-style chimney pots in many different designs. The Tudor originals of these were built up in shaped brick, but Doultons supplied them in
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1536-516: The testing of insulators was subsequently built. The headquarters building and factory of Royal Doulton were in Lambeth in London, on the south bank of the Thames. This Art Deco building was designed by T.P.Bennett. In 1939 Gilbert Bayes created ceramic relief friezes that showed the history of pottery through the ages. In 1963, a ceramic filter company Aerox Ltd., of Stroud , Gloucester ,
1584-405: The tracing by Dr John Snow of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London to a water supply contaminated by sewage led to a huge programme of improving sewage disposal, and other forms of drainage using pipes. These and an expanding range of builder's and sanitary wares remained a bedrock of Doulton into the 20th century. Metal plumbing items such as taps and cast iron baths were added to
1632-504: The umbrella of Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd was a subsidiary of Doulton & Co. Ltd, itself a subsidiary of the Pearson Group Doulton & Co. became Royal Doulton plc in 1993. Pearson spun off Royal Doulton in 1993. Waterford Wedgwood completed a takeover of Royal Doulton in 2005, acquiring all assets and brands. Parts of the business were progressively sold off. The sanitaryware division
1680-425: The utilitarian ceramics which had grown the business enormously. British stoneware had languished somewhat in artistic terms, although Wedgwood and others continued to produce jasperware and some other stonewares in a very refined style, competing with porcelain . The Doulton wares went further back to earlier salt-glazed styles, with a varied glaze finish. This "gave stoneware an entirely new impetus, realizing
1728-503: Was acquired and subsequently integrated with the water filter division of Doulton Industrial Porcelains. Following various mergers and acquisitions over the years this company still exists, and under the name Doulton., but is no longer connected to Royal Doulton. In 1969 Doulton bought Beswick Pottery , long a specialist in figurines, mostly of animals, including some Beatrix Potter characters. Their factory in Longton , Stoke-on-Trent
1776-505: Was bought by Stelrad . In 1983 David Edward Dunn Johnson bought the hotelware division of Royal Doulton, now renamed Steelite and, as of 2022, was still operating in Stoke-on-Trent. In 1995 Royal Doulton commissioned a new factory just outside Jakarta , Indonesia ; this division is called PT Doulton. By 2009 the factory employed 1,500 persons producing bone china under both Wedgwood and Royal Doulton brands. Annual production
1824-860: Was closed in 2000. The Beswick factory in Longton closed and the Doulton factory in Baddeley Green closed in 2003. The Nile Street factory in Burslem closed on 30 September 2005, and was demolished in 2014. In 1971, S. Pearson & Son Ltd, a subsidiary of the Pearson industrial conglomerate acquired Doulton & Co. Pearson & Son owned Allied English Potteries and merged operations into Doulton & Co. All brands from Allied English Potteries and Doulton & Co. Ltd. including Royal Doulton, Minton, Beswick, Dunn Bennett, Booths, Colclough, Royal Albert, Royal Crown Derby, Paragon, Ridgway, Queen Anne, Royal Adderley and Royal Adderley Floral were moved under
1872-403: Was given, Royal Doulton. It always made some more decorative wares, initially still mostly stoneware, and from the 1860s, the firm made considerable efforts to get a reputation for design, in which it was largely successful, as one of the first British makers of art pottery . Initially this was done through artistic stonewares made in Lambeth, but in 1882 the firm bought a Burslem factory, which
1920-464: Was granted to goldsmith Thomas Calton for £609 by Henry VIII . 1605 - The estate was sold for £4,900 to Edward Alleyn by Sir Francis Calton . 1619 - Dulwich College was founded by Edward Alleyn. 1785 - Belair House was built (probably by architect Henry Holland ). 1805 (+1814) - Dulwich Common was enclosed. 1812 - Kingswood House was built by William Vizard . 1851 - Dulwich's population reached 1,632. 1862 - West Dulwich railway station
1968-517: Was in charge of the "Lambeth faience" department until he emigrated to America in 1876, where he had success with his own pottery. Doulton was rather unusual in that most of the Lambeth studio pieces were signed by the artist or artists, usually with initials or a monogram incised on the base. Many are also dated. Until 1882, "every piece of the company's art stoneware was a unique item" but after that some pieces were made in batches, as demand grew. There were initial technical difficulties in producing
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2016-528: Was losing ground in the post-war period, and Doulton's purchases of other companies was not enough to stem decline. The Lambeth factory closed in 1956 due to clean air regulations preventing urban production of salt glaze. Following closure, work was transferred to The Potteries . The factory building was demolished in 1978 and the friezes transferred to the Victoria & Albert Museum . The office building in Black Prince Road survives, complete with
2064-495: Was mainly intended for making bone china tablewares and decorative items. It was a latecomer in this market compared to firms such as Royal Crown Derby , Royal Worcester , Wedgwood , Spode and Mintons , but made a place for itself in the later 19th century. Today Royal Doulton mainly produces tableware and figurines, but also cookware, glassware, and other home accessories such as linens , curtains and lighting. Three of its brands were Royal Doulton, Royal Albert, and (after
2112-566: Was opened as Knights Hill Station. 1868 - The Old village green was bought for public use. 1870 - Dulwich College moved to a new campus on College Road designed by Charles Barry Junior . 1888 - All Saints Church was built between 1888 and 1897; it was designed by G H Fellowes Prynne . 1890 - Dulwich Park was opened. 1900 - Dulwich became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell . 1901 - Dulwich's Population reached 10,247. 1940s - World War II : The Blitz and
2160-470: Was reported to be 5 to 7 million pieces. In order to reduce costs the majority of production of both brands has been transferred to Indonesia, with only a small number of high-end products continuing to be made in the UK. Royal Doulton Ltd., along with other Waterford Wedgwood companies, went into administration on 5 January 2009. Royal Doulton is now part of WWRD Holdings Limited . On 11 May 2015, Fiskars ,
2208-438: Was the foreman. They traded as Jones, Watts & Doulton from 1815 until Martha Jones left the partnership in 1820, when the trade name was changed to Doulton & Watts. The business specialised in making salt glaze stoneware articles, including utilitarian or decorative bottles, jugs and jars, much of it intended for inns and pubs. In 1826 they took over a larger existing pottery on Lambeth High Street. The company took
2256-424: Was traditionally a Conservative area but as of the 2018 local elections , all wards comprising the West Dulwich area were represented by Labour councillors. For the 2022 Lambeth London Borough Council election , the area became part of the West Dulwich ward . West Dulwich has four state primary schools (Rosendale Primary School and three others) and one secondary school, Kingsdale Foundation School . There are
2304-481: Was used to make the popular " Bunnykins " range of anthropomorphic rabbits, originally produced in 1936 to designs by the then managing director's daughter, Sister Barbara Bailey , who was a nun. 1972 Doulton was taken over by Pearson and Son Ltd., and a year later restructured the Doulton group into five divisions: Royal Doulton Tableware; Doulton Glass Industries; Doulton Engineering Group; Doulton Sanitaryware and Doulton Australia. The whole English pottery industry
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