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

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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?

She doesn't think I'd be careful enough with it. I'm always a child in her eyes I think. (We never got the nice plates because we'd break them!)

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It's weird. When I'm feeling sad, I made 'dinners' from my childhood. It's comfort food. It makes me feel safe.

My mum gave me part of her wedding tea set a few years ago - a Queen Anne one (brand, not from Queen Anne's reign!). It was a part-set due to breakages over the years - the set always came out a Christmas and on special occasions. I managed to find another partial set on ebay, and coincidentally it was the items that were missing from mum's set and was in a town half way between mum's house and mine - so I picked it up on the way home! Clearly meant to be 🤗I might treat myself to a Proper Cup of Tea in a cup and saucer with my lunch!

You can get them in all kinds of qualities. We took some from my mother that she said came from Tesco who had some Homeware shops in 1970s.
We still use them in the kitchen or to serve food on.

Love this thread. I'm getting more nostalgic as I get older and love things now that I would have gawped at years ago. My dgm died 5 years ago and her best China sets were dumped as no one wanted them. I'm crying now thinking about that.

I'm so going to go after that stuff. Not your stuff, that is beautiful.

Ive just had a look on ebay, there are loads of sets and extra bits on there.

My mum had a collection of blue willow...a ton of it my dad still uses

But the stuff for best was her royal Albert 'country roses' which I've got but never use

OMG. Can I buy them? I'll exchange you a white square set of bowls instead?

Royal Albert country roses

Oh, that's brilliant! I'd be afraid to use it though!

I would have done the same 10 years ago and that very prized and carefully protected china would have been something very important to my Nan and mother even (the plate thief).

Times move on and we don't realise somethings sometimes.

I've got the minature version of that.
We bought them for my Aunty for her birthday and christmas for a couple of yrs.
They're now safely tucked away in my china cabinet with other random bits and bobs her china teaset which my mum and her sisters bought for their Ruby wedding.
I've got a Sylvac vase of hers too. She used to save all her 20p's in it when they first came out.

Don't use them around children. They get the Tesco value range lol.

Is that the pink ones?

The one upthread with the red and yellow roses.

Plenty of people like your aunt kept their blue and white willow patternfor best, very carefully handled and stored and remained in perfect condition until they died and the ungrateful descendants took them to a charity shop. Where you can still buy them very cheaply; high quality bone china and ironstone . Car boots are also a great source. I've got a huge collection, all different, none of them chipped or cracked.

When the kids were small they used to enjoy making up stories about the pictures on their dinner plate (eating the food revealed more of the story).

I swear that's the only teacup my grandmother would drink from! Honestly.

I swear that's the teacup my grandmother carried with her everywhere - even to posh aunt's house! That's the exact teacup!

Churchill is hotel/catering ware really. I'd class it as everyday use. You may have had a similar pattern in fine china such as Spode as they made a lot of it or Minton.

The middle one.
My aunty always used a cup and saucer.

My grandparents bought me a Royal Albert Country Roses teaset when I was three because I said I thought it was pretty!

It's in my kitchen display cabinet. These days I prefer more muted china designs.

It used to be.

www.simplemost.com/10-interesting-facts-classic-blue-willow-china/

I suppose the thing that interests me is that the buildings depicted are Indian perhaps?