Royal Worcester Royal Worcester Royal Worcester was established in 1751 and is believed to be the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain brand still in existence today (this is disputed by Royal Crown Derby, which claims 1750 as its year of establishment). Part of the Portmeirion Group since 2009, Royal Worcester remains in the luxury tableware and giftware market, although production in Worcester itself has ended. Technically, the Worcester Royal Porcelain Co. Ltd. (known as Royal Worcester) was formed in 1862, and although the company had a royal warrant from 1788, wares produced before that time, as well as those produced
Royal Worcester Corset Company Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 when Brooklyn Museum moved its costume collection in order to reduce expenses. Contemporary Worcester playwrights Virginia Byrne and Kallin Johnson, of Notre Dame Academy, debuted their fictionalized musical "Royal Worcester Corset Company" in 1993, to commemorate the women who worked at the factory. Royal Worcester Corset Company The Royal Worcester Corset Company, was founded as The Worcester Skirt Company by David Hale Fanning in 1861 in Worcester, MA, and first specialized in making hoop skirts. In 1872 the company changed its name to the Worcester Corset Co., to reflect its change of direction from