Michael Farrar-Bell

Michael Charles Farrar Bell, later Farrar-Bell (1911–1993) was a British stained glass and postage stamp designer.

Bell designed pub signs, then became known as a stained glass designer[citation needed] as the head of Clayton and Bell, which had been one of the most prolific workshops of English stained glass during the latter half of the 19th century.

[1] He was an accomplished artist, and a British Pathe News film of 1956 shows him at work, painting pub-signs.

Together they designed a plaque that went in front of every Morland pub and hotel across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and London, to commemorate 250 years of brewing.

These ceramic plaques were first made by Carter Tile Works in London and then the Poole pottery company, and still can be seen in more than 350 pubs across the Morland trading area, many in Abingdon, Reading, Oxford, Wantage, Maidenhead, Wokingham, Thame.