{"id":715144,"date":"2026-07-28T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:03:08","slug":"specialist-stoke-on-trent-tile-maker-he-smith-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715144\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist Stoke-on-Trent tile maker H&#038;E Smith turns 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grandson of the founder of a specialist tile manufacturer that counts London Underground among its customers has said he is very proud to see the company reach 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">H&amp;E Smith of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, started life in 1926 as Smith &amp; Warrilow, named after partners William Henry Smith and Ernest Warrilow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm initially produced glazed fireplace tiles for homes before expanding into ceramic wall tiles as they became more popular. Today, as well as the Tube, the bespoke manufacturer&#8217;s clients include hospitality venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope it carries on, keeps the name, keeps the traditions, finds the right niches in the market,&#8221; said managing director Fred Smith, grandson of William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grandson of the founder of a specialist tile manufacturer that counts London Underground among its customers has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}