Darby and Joan Jug
c. 1930Medium sized jug with a Darby and Joan transfer design. Larger design on the front and smaller design on the back. The inside of jug is cream, while the outside has a tan background and the transfer design is in shades of brown and cream, with small touches of blue, pink and green.
The design shows Darby and Joan sitting in their home, Darby in front of the fire and Joan at the kitchen table.
Lancaster & Sons Ltd manufactured earthenware at the Dresden works, Tinkersclough, in the Shelton area of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England between 1899-1944. Formerly Lancaster & Barker, the original partners being Frederick John Lancaster, Emily Lancaster and Edward John Barker. When the partnership of Lancaster & Barker was dissolved in July 1899 the business was continued by Frederick John Lancaster. The '& Sons' was added to the company mark in 1906. At some time was renamed to Lancaster & Sons (Hanley) Ltd. Later the partners were Edwin Lancaster and Mr T H Sandland as a co-director.
The characters Darby and Joan have come to be used to symbolize a loving, virtuous married couple. The names derive from the hero and heroine of a mid-18th century ballad by Henry Woodfall. According to some sources, Woodfall served an apprenticeship as a printer to a man named John Darby.
Details
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Stamped on the base is the L & SONS LTD makers mark includingthe wording
ENGLISH WARE
MADE IN ENGLAND
L & SONS LTD
LOGO
HANLEY ENGLAND
Handwritten in black on the base is the design munber
X546
Added in red much later is the owners name
B LORD
The term Darby and Joan was a term commonly used in England to denote a devoted couple, who were living out their retirement in quiet, if impoverished, contentment. The term became less popular at the turn of the 20th Century, but is still used in the Darby and Joan Social clubs, that still exist in England.
This item was donated by Barbara Lord, sister of Geoff Lord who was President of the Busselton Historical Society in 1975 and instrumental in establishing the Museum in the Old Butter Factory Museum.
The Lord family arrived in the Busselton area in 1922 as one of the original Group settlement families at Chapman Hill/ Walsall. The Group Settlement scheme was a Western Australian/ United Kingdom government migration scheme introduced in 1921, to provide a labour force to develop agricultural land in the South West region of Western Australia, reduce unemployment in the United Kingdom and reduce dependence on food imports from interstate. Members of the Lord family have been active community members in the Busselton region since they arrived in 1922.
Staffordshire
United Kingdom
Historical significance due to its association with the Lord family of Busselton
Busselton Historical Society
Busselton Historical Society
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