Based in the heart of The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, and situated just 500 metres from Spode’s original factory site, set up by master potter Josiah Spode I, sits our earthenware factory

“If a boy had to face the world penniless and fatherless in the 1740s there were worse places than the Potteries, where a great industry was taking shape.” (Leonard Whiter, Spode Executive writing about Josiah Spode I)