To ask you what the name of this type of tableware is?

[TheNosehasit]

Does anyone know what the tableware is called (if indeed it's called anything) which is usually blue sort of intricate drawings on the plates?

I know they used to be given as wedding presents years ago and our one posh aunt only brought them out on special occasions. I hated them at the time (about 40 years ago) as they were fussy and I always felt that you couldn't quite see what you were eating lol.

Now however, I've had a change of heart coupled with a touch of nostalgia. I yearn for a simpler time when the fine china was brought out and the chipped mugs were only used by family. But I can't for the life of me know what to google in order to find them! They may been a common style or they may have been a particular brand?

I remember in primary school (about 45 years ago!) our teacher telling us the story that was supposedly being told on willow pattern. I don't remember much except the two lovers being chased over the bridge, and then, I think, being turned into the birds at the top!

I like willow pattern too and had a 2nd hand set in my first grown up house.

Man - you should have kept it! The older pieces from 1800's onwards are very valuable apparently!

I might just have found myself a new hobby!

Where was that from?

It's Royal Doulton Desert Star. A wedding present for my parents in 1960 - it's very much of it's time!

It makes me think of Christmas as that's the only time the serving bowls came out.

I love that! This was ours (as in York Castle Museum!)

Nice 🙂

My late grandmother only ever drank tea out of a dainty china tea-cup. She couldn't cope with the texture of the rim of a mug lol. She was poor all her life but the lady had class lol.

It's really interesting looking back now. My posh aunt has 3 DILs. Would it be crass to ask her to leave me her willow pattern china in her will? 😆

It's very much like how I viewed the willow pattern thing at the time. Not entirely to my taste lol.

I remind myself of Mrs. Bucket sometimes (she wouldn't allow the clumsy neighbour to use her fine china as she would inevitably break something).

This will be me soon!

It's readily available in charity shops, if you keep your eye out!

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads That's Midwinter Spanish Garden, the first crockery I bought when I got married! DS recently spotted some in a skip, and rescued it for himself.

It's really interesting looking back now. My posh aunt has 3 DILs. Would it be crass to ask her to leave me her willow pattern china in her will? 😆

I might not phrase it quite like that but there's no harm saying how much you loved it. She might let you have it now!

This was our dinner service growing up. Alfred Meakin "Hedgerow". I think we only had the dinner plates though. Found the jug in a charity shop and my sister has found a couple of bowls.

China was my mum's "thing" and while we had bog standard stuff for everyday, she inherited and bought some lovely pieces over the years and I'm lucky to have some of it myself now.

I think I've seen that Hedgerow pattern before - it has the same green rim as the Desert Star I'm looking for so I've pulled it out of plate stacks I think.

"Now however, I've had a change of heart coupled with a touch of nostalgia."

I've recently bought candy stripe flannel sheets and duvet cover, and I swear to god I sleep more soundly with that bedding than I have in years. It just reminds me of being tucked up in bed at my nan's, safe and loved. I've also recently made the swap from jersey pyjamas to those long flowing traditional white cotton night gowns of my childhood. There is a lot to be said for the little things that can make us happy.

This is the set from my youth, my mum still uses them

A friend has some willow pattern that he uses every day, and when my husband broke a plate of his I found a replacement on eBay (plate, not husband)

Spode make Blue Italian, which you can pick up cheaply as seconds.

www.spode.co.uk/spode-blue-italian-seconds-single-15cm-cereal-bowl?gclid=CjwKCAjw8JKbBhBYEiwAs3sxNxJzYRaCwwpr8i53TosZrgq5qy8OHW-pm0zEDzrQ232LVEhX0lRyjBoCwYYQAvD_BwE

I have a Spode dinner service (wedding present). It’s in a cabinet and rarely used due to a winning combination of not being dishwasher safe and a stupidly clumsy cat.

@CharlotteStreet omg! That jug! My grandparents had that crockery! I was going to say it was a wedding present, but they were married in 1941, so maybe not.

Your DS is super savvy!

My in laws still use that one too!

I actually will! I suspect a lot of families have one surviving plate somewhere which doesn't match with everything else. It's my new hobby!

It's lovely, Soup, I could happy live with it myself! There's quite a bit on ebay and etsy if you're after more of it, btw.

@TheNosehasit Here's my set of 4 OP. Given to me by my grandmother when I bought my house a few years ago, I think they may have been my great grandmother's before that. Currently use them every day for breakfast/lunch/tapas but if I ever feel the need to get rid of them I'll send them your way OP!