I didn’t know boots used to sell crockery. Does anyone recognise this?

[Roxiepugsowner]

I’ve recently been given quite a lot of kitchen stuff for my new house. I was given this crockery. I’m late 30’s and have never seen crockery in boots. It says boots company and made in Ireland. Anyone have any idea of how old it is? Thanks 😀

There used to be a separate cook shop on our town. I would say 1980s. In the 1980s you used to be able to buy matchy matchy everything. From egg cups to cutlery to chair cushions and kitchen blinds and kitchen tiles.
I swear it is true.

I'm sure we had this crockery when I was wee! My parents married in 1985 and it seems the kind of thing that would have been a wedding present.

My parents still have their floral crockery set - large plates, side plates, mugs and I think a teapot and sugar bowl!

It's the design on the left. They're in great condition and they must have had them about 35 years now.

I’ve still got some Hedge Rose plates and a teapot from the set I bought when I got married in the late 1980s. The crockery lasted much longer than the marriage did

@SpiderinaWingMirror

There used to be a separate cook shop on our town. I would say 1980s. In the 1980s you used to be able to buy matchy matchy everything. From egg cups to cutlery to chair cushions and kitchen blinds and kitchen tiles. I swear it is true.

IIRC that was the case in Solihull. Two different shops.

Loved boots cookshop

I was a Boots Saturday girl in the 80s while was at school. I bought my first microwave from the cookshop when I left home at 18. It was red and white and cube shaped. My SIL collected everything Eternal Beau but my DM and I would call it Eternal Boak (Scottish slang for sick) It was a bit unimaginative to have everything the same (dishes, lampshades, duvet, towels 🙄) and we would joke that her knickers must be the same pattern.

@TeenMinusTests mine have twisted stems too. They're in the (original) box on top of a bookshelf so I can't get them down to take a picture.

I bought myself a pink cassette player and radio from Boots with gift vouchers my aunt gave me for Christmas 1986.

@fridgepants

China patterns/wedding services seem to be much less of a thing these days.

It's because there's less call for formal dinner services with the matching tea and coffee set and tureens and because you can pick up fashionable stuff for £20 from a supermarket or IKEA.

It's still worth buying bone china over stoneware imo though because it lasts longer and is less likely to chip.

I have a whole service, for six. It is white with gold trim. A relative gave it to me last year and I was surprised it was from Boots. I love it and keep it for best 😁

I worked in the Pets department as a Saturday girl in the late 70s. I remember punks coming in to buy studded dog collars!

@DynamoKev

I have some Hornsea pottery from Boots. I think there were some designs made for Boots exclusively. Before my time - but Boots used to have a Library and a Cafe in some stores.

My mum was a Boots librarian until the early 50s (can't believe she could have kept quiet enough!)

She started on the shop floor shortly after the war and a foreign gentleman came in asking for a "whirling douche". She sent him to the gardening section as she innocently assumed he meant a sprinkler. Apparently it was a form of contraception (sounds more fun than a condom ). She said the pharmacist was pissing himself.

I have managed to tracked down a discontinued design on the "Chinasearch" website. My cousin has a dinner service which she wanted to expand, and I obliged. Worth a look, and if you're having a clearout, they may buy stuff as well.
My "going away to college" crockery (and matching saucepan!) came from Boots in 1965. White background, blue and green flowers of that geometrical 60's style so dated that it's become fashionable again.

I grew up in Brighton in the 60's and remember there being a Library in the Boots on St. James' St., up the hill from the Lyons Corner House tea rooms!

(I thought Eternal Beau was M&S?)

I had some from boots in the late 80s

It had round cups which i always thought posh as we had mugs

Boots still sold crockery when I worked there in the late 90s. Still got stuff I bought back then.

We had the Carmargue duvet set and curtains too. Would have been 1987 when we bought our first house.

I have 6 Hedge rose side plates which I bought in a local charity shop for 20p each just before the 1st lockdown.

I will be on the lookout for more.

I've still got the Camargue set I bought when I got my first house. Dinner plates, side plates, cups and saucers, small and large milk jug , sugar bowl, gravy boat and tea pot. Oh, and a large Salad bowl and covered tureen. I still use the dinner plates and side plates on a regular basis. Everything else is in the cupboard and rarely sees the light of day

We had the poppy bowls! Loving this trip down memory lane, especially the home brew, yes there was a whole dept for this! Always bought new singles there too. My nearest big Boots was Oxford Street. I spent hours in that place on Saturdays.

I loved their own brand stuff too, reliable but cheaper, especially in electronics - though with one exception.

I was given my first walkman one Christmas in the 80s. It was a Boots own brand though, not an actual branded Walkman which I really, really wanted. My mum has always praised me for not being a grabby child but when she went to buy it saw a much cheaper Boots own and thought it ridiculous to pay more for the same thing. Thing is, it just wasn't as good. I was gutted. As was a friend who wanted any type of walkman so I sold her my Boots version the day after Boxing day. I then used the cash plus Boots vouchers I'd been given and bought the actual Walkman I wanted. All good. My mum didn't notice and commented a few months later about how they were all the same anway, as the Boots one I had, even had Walkman written on the front.

I bought my iron in 2002.