History
Susan Williams-Ellis (daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis) and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis, purchased a small pottery decorating company in Stoke-on-Trent called A E Gray Ltd in 1960 Susan had been working with A E Gray for some years, commissioning designs to sell at the Ship Shop gift shop in Portmeirion Village, North Wales and the Portmeirion Antiques Shop in Pont Street, Knightsbridge, London (later Portmeirion Pottery's first headquarters).
Initially Susan Williams-Ellis produced items under the mark Gray's Pottery Portmeirionware, but in 1961 the name was changed to Portmeirion Pottery when they amalgamated Gray's Pottery with Kirkham's Pottery
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