Elder Road Works.—This pottery has been worked by Messrs. Meakin & Co. since 1865, and is capable of turning out about 2,500 crates of ware annually. The productions are entirely confined to the white granite ware for the United States.
Warburton.—Pot works were established here by John Warburton very early in the last century; after his death they were continued by his widow, Ann Warburton. They are stated to have made white stoneware for Holland and the Continent, and to have ultimately brought over some workmen from Delft. Jacob Warburton, the son, succeeded to the business, and died in 1826, at the ripe age of eighty-four. His son, Peter Warburton, was one of the partners of the New Hall China Works (which see); to him is said by Shaw to belong the credit of printing in gold, and to his mother that of first using soda. In 1810, Peter Warburton took out a patent for “a new method of decorating china, porcelain, earthenware, and glass, with native, pure or adulterated, gold, silver, platina, or other metals, fluxed or lowered with lead or any other substance, which invention or new method leaves the metals after being burned in their metallic state.”
Daniel.—Ralph Daniel, a potter at Cobridge, employed in the early part of last century some workmen from Delft, and, to keep their process secret, started works at Bagnall for them. About 1743 he introduced the use of plaster of Paris moulds, such as he found were being used in France.
The potters at Cobridge in 1843 were Wood and Brownfield, John and George Alcock, Francis Dillon, Elijah Jones, Stephen Hughes and Co., Benjamin Endon Godwin, John Mayer Godwin and James Godwin, John and Robert Godwin, George and Ralph Leigh, and Coxon, Harding, and Co. Potteries also, early in last century, existed at Holden Lane, at Milton, and at Sneyd Green.
Other potters at one time or other at Cobridge are N. Dillon, R. Stevenson, Mansfield & Hackney, and Rathbone, Hill & Co.
Other manufacturers are W. E. Cartledge, Bournes Bank; W. Holdcroft; Hope and Carter; Thos. Hughes; Maddock & Co., formerly Maddock and Gater; C. Meakin; Oulsnam and Son; Pope and Co.; and Wade and Colclough.
In 1770 (Feb. 4th), the following Staffordshire potters signed an agreement as to prices:—John Platt, John Lowe, John Taylor, John Cobb, Robt. Bucknall, John Daniel, Thos. Daniel, junr., Richd. Adams, (Dr.) Saml. Chatterley, Thos. Lowe, John Allen, Wm. Parrott, Jacob Warburton, Warburton and Stone, Jos. Smith, Joshua Heath, John Bourn, Jos. Stephens, Wm. Smith, Jos. Simpson, John Weatherby, J. and Rd. Mare, Nicholas Poole, John Yates, Chas. Hassells, Ann Warburton and Son (T. Warburton), Wm. Meir. Other potters were Chas. and Ephraim Chatterley, W. Mellor, and Whithead.