Moorcroft was a graduate of what is now the Royal College of Art in London, and he brought a striking modernist approach to design. His first innovative range of pottery, Florian Ware, won him a ...

Moorcroft Pottery, in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, is famed for its colourful designs. But now it has said that with “deep sadness” it has appointed receivers to place it into voluntary liquidation.

Walter Moorcroft developed his own style and introduced many exotic flowers into the firm's pottery designs. Bolder colours and designs began to emerge from the Moorcroft kilns after the Second ...

On Monday, Lamine Diack, president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation, will visit Picketts Lock and be shown the designs and model for the new centre. Moorcroft hopes it will ...

The firm's royal patronage continued when the late Queen Elizabeth II added Moorcroft designs into the Royal Collection. The brand was also popular with US presidents and British prime ministers ...

The late Queen Elizabeth II regularly took new Moorcroft designs into the Royal Collection and early Moorcroft work is extremely prized across the globe, fetching high prices at auction.