CHAPTER V.
Stoke-upon-Trent—Josiah Spode—Copeland and Garratt—Copeland and Sons—Mintons—Hollins—Trent Pottery; Jones—Albert Street Works—Copeland Street Works—Glebe Street and Wharf Street Works—Copeland Street—Bridge Works—London Road; Goss—Kirkham—Campbell Brick and Tile Company—Harrison and Wedgwood—Bankes—Hugh Booth—Ephraim Booth—Wolf—Bird—Adams and Son—H. and R. Daniel—Boyle—Reade—Lowndes and Hall.
The large and commercially important, as well as thickly populated district, known as the “Staffordshire Potteries,” or more commonly called simply “The Potteries,” comprises a number of towns known as the “Pottery Towns,” and other places adjoining them. These are Burslem, Hanley, Shelton, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Longton, Etruria, Cobridge, Fenton, Longport, and Dresden. Of these, Stoke-upon-Trent, although far from being the oldest, or largest, or busiest, is the great railway centre, and head of the electoral district; the parliamentary district of Stoke-upon-Trent (which returns two members to Parliament) comprising these towns just named, with a few other out-lying places. Some of these towns are corporate, and Newcastle-under-Lyme is both a corporate and parliamentary borough. It is estimated that in this pottery district considerably over thirty thousand persons are employed in, or dependent on, the staple trade of the place, that of china and earthenware manufacture.