Spode Under the name 'Spode Ltd' the same factories and business was continued after 1970. In 2006, the business merged with Royal Worcester. The merged company entered administration on 6 November 2008. The brand names and intellectual property were acquired by Portmeirion Group on 23 April 2009. On 23 April 2009, Portmeirion Pottery purchased their rival Royal Worcester and Spode brands, together with some of the stock, after they had been placed into administration the previous November. The purchase did not include Royal Worcester or Spode manufacturing facilities. Many items in Spode's Blue Italian and Woodland ranges are now made at
The Village (The Prisoner) the unnamed Butler who serves Number 2; his number (if he has one) is never revealed. Similarly, only one character - a woman in "The Schizoid Man" who befriends Number 6 - is consistently identified by a proper name, and never by her number. Many items in the Village are branded with its logo, a canopied penny-farthing bicycle (commonly referred to as an "Ordinary"). It appears on the masthead of the daily newspaper called the "Tally Ho". Almost all signs and objects are labelled in the same typeface, a modified version of the font Albertus. Scenes of the Village were