Maling Pottery

Found an intriguing piece of blue pottery at the foot of a recently eroded cliff on the beach when glass hunting this afternoon. A search of the websites and my antiques guides came up with some fascinating finds. The pic is a compilation of three photos and I've drawn a circle to show where the piece of pottery I found came from! First the wording…

Bottom image… The North East Coast Exhibition was a world's fair held in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear and ran from May to October 1929. Held five years after the British Empire Exhibition in London, and at the start of the Great Depression the event was held to encourage local heavy industry.
It was opened on 14 May by the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in what is now Newcastle's Exhibition Park. When it closed on 26 October over 4 million people had attended (with an average of 30 000 visitors per day).
The exhibition grounds are now a public park, the Newcastle's Exhibition Park used in the 1960s for the Tyneside Summer Exhibition. One of the art deco pavilions, a single storey steel framed concrete clad building, originally the Palace of Arts still stands, and is listed. This sliver of pottery shows the back stamp on the lid.

Top Image… The main portico of Newcastle Central Railway Station and the bridge abutments of the line going southwards towards York and the south. From the top of the lid of tea caddy.

Vase Pic… It's part of a Rington's Tea Caddy 'Bridge Design' celebrating the 1929 East Coast Exhibition and was probably discarded after being broken. Very collectable now because it was made by Maling but at the time was probably given away as part of a tea promotion.

This is the squat version of canister and was produced for the North-East Coast Industries Exhibition. Around the body of the canister are featured: Wearmouth Bridge Sunderland, Royal Tweed Bridge Berwick, High Level & Swing Bridges Newcastle, The New Tyne Bridge Newcastle, and St Nicholas Cathedral Newcastle.