Royal Worcester were made redundant in 2003, and another 100 went in 2005. Fifteen porcelain painters left the Severn Street factory on Friday 29 September 2006, together with 100 other workers. The last trading date for Royal Worcester was 14 June 2009. The company went into administration on 6 November 2008 and on 23 April 2009, the brand name and intellectual property were acquired by Portmeirion Pottery Group – a pottery and homewares company based in Stoke-on-Trent. As Portmeirion Group has a factory in Stoke-on-Trent, the purchase did not include the Royal Worcester and Spode manufacturing facilities. Royal Worcester Royal Worcester was
The General (The Prisoner) music used during scene involving the Prisoner, Number 2 and the Professor's wife as "one of the strangest musical themes in the series". The General (The Prisoner) "The General" is an episode of the television series "The Prisoner". It was the tenth episode to be produced, and the sixth to be broadcast. The central themes of this episode are rote learning and indoctrination. Number Six — along with the rest of the Village population — is subjected to a new mind-altering education technology called "Speed Learn" which can instill a three-year university level course in history over a television screen