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Love my Denby Imperial Blue. Most bought from Oxfam and the rest from JL. I will have stewed apples and custard in a small pot heated in the microwave with coffee in a cup and saucer this evening. I use their mugs every morning. I must hunt for the crust set. Somewhere in a cupboard. And I have daffodils in a coffee pot on the mantelpiece

I hope to pass it all on with blue Le Creust pans to my DDs

I have passed most of my Le Creuset to the children already - it was too heavy.

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Le Creuset is enjoying something of a revival at the moment - those cast iron dishes are very much on trend now.

You need a crane to lift them when full.

Oh, I agree! I see Aldi are doing their own versions of them now - in pastel colours.

They might be on trend but I can't lift a large casserole empty, let alone with food in it!

Back in about 1975, I bought a great heap of Denby Cotswold pattern in a Bentalls sale. Over the next few years I added to it until I had 8 of everything I needed. Over 50 years later I am still using them. I hve broken about half a dozen items in all that time.

When I go, it will make a big lot at auction and may not sell. Still 50 plus years of use, it was worth it.

Now I am Googling Denby blue tableware I have come up with a range in The .Vintage .Store called Cottage Blue renamed Blue Classic later in the 20th century. This is actually more like some of the blue items I bought in Oxfam and other charity shops. The new items from John Lewis are Imperial Blue. I shall have a good read tonight about the history of Denby and more specifically about their blue range.

There are Denby sellers/collectors on fb.

HelterSkelter1 I’ve got a couple of electric blue Danesby ware jugs that came from my grandma, they are from the 1930s, when Denby was called Bourne.

I have some pieces of the Denby Greystone. We didn't have much money so I could only afford a couple of plates, etc. After having them for years I was mortified when my husband broke the lid of the casserole dish. Then the next week my hands spasemed when I was carrying the 5 plates and they all cracked as they hit our stone floor. By the time I could afforded all the matching pieces it had been discontinued and a secondhand plate that you could see wear on was going for £14. I still have the remaining pieces on display.