Ken got a job in the ‘Useful Casters’ in 1950 thanks to his uncle Bob Bradley who was the foreman of the Figure Makers. Useful Casters made things like coffee and teapots, sugar bowls, sauce jugs and soup tureens. Ken explains the casting process in great detail, describing how some Royal Worcester patterns were harder to cast than others. Ken met his wife Winnifred at the factory, she was a figure paintress. He resigned in 1963 over the piecework rate for the more complicated process of casting two-colour ware. Ken then became a postman and spent 30 years with the Royal Mail. 

EXTRACT Ken describes making a teapot.  Duration 1.01

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