Batt printing was practised at New Hall, and some remarkably good examples have come under my notice. In 1810, Peter Warburton, on behalf of the company of which he was a partner, is said to have taken out a patent “for printing landscapes and other designs from copper plates, in gold and platinum, upon porcelain and pottery.” The company was also among the first to adopt the improvements in printing on ware made by William Brookes in the beginning of the present century.
Glass.—Joseph Glass was a potter in Hanley, in the middle of the seventeenth century, and his works are stated to have been still carried on by him or his son, Joseph Glass, in the beginning of the eighteenth. “Joseph Glass ... clowdy, and a sort of dishes, painted with different coloured slips, and sold at 3s. and 3s. 6d. per dozen.” A tyg bearing his name, IOSEPH GLASS S V H G X, painted round the body is in the Staniforth collection. Later on the works were carried on by John Glass, and from him passed to Samuel Keeling & Co., then to Meakin Brothers, and lastly to Taylor Brothers. The works were situated in Market Street, and have of late years been pulled down. This Samuel Keeling was great nephew to the patentee, James Keeling, mentioned on another page, who was an important manufacturer towards the close of the last century. Mr. Samuel Keeling, one of the patriarchs of the potteries, resided in partial retirement at Rocester. His firm, Messrs. Keeling & Adams, hold three mills at Hanley for grinding potters’ materials. One of them, the Eastwood Mill, consists of two old erections combined; one portion was a pottery worked by William Baddeley; another, the place erected by William Baddeley’s brother James for a silk mill. They also work the Botteslow Mill and the Albion Mill.
Twyford.—Twyford, the potter, already named, “commenced business near Shelton Old Hall, the seat of Elijah Fenton’s family; and the only known specimen of his manufacture,” says Shaw, “is a jug made for T. Fenton, Esq.,” then in the possession of his descendant. Mr. Twyford and his children and grandchildren continued as potters, and are now represented by Mr. Thomas Twyford, of the Bath Street Works.
In 1829 the manufactories named by Shaw were E. Mayer & Son; Job Meigh & Son (Old Hall); Dimmock & Co.; Toft & May; J. Keeling; W. Hackwood; T. Taylor; J. Glass; J. & W. Ridgway; Hicks, Meigh, & Johnson; H. Daniel & Sons; J. Yates; and Hollins, Warburton, Daniel, & Co. (New Hall).
Mare or Maer, or Mayer.—In the early part of the last century Hugh Mare and John Mare were potters at Hanley, and produced black and mottled wares. Later on were “Elijah Mayer” or “E. Mayer,” then “Elijah Mayer & Son,” and next “Joseph Mayer.”
Other potters in the early part of last century were William Simpson, Richard Marsh, Moses Sandford, and John Ellis. Several of these and later potters will be named in the course of the notices of existing manufactories. The potteries in Hanley and Shelton enumerated by Ward in 1843 are the Old Hall, the New Hall, Cauldon Place, William Ridgway and partners (six manufactories), Thomas Dimmock & Co. (three manufactories—formerly James Whitehead, J. and W. Handley, Edmund John Birch, and Christopher Whitehead); Samuel Keeling & Co., formerly John Glass; William Hackwood; Samuel and John Burton, formerly James Keeling; Samuel Mayer, formerly Sarah Brown’s; Thomas Furnival, junior, & Co., formerly Reuben Johnson’s; George Lomas, formerly Barlow and Hammersley’s; Joseph Clementson, formerly Elijah Jones’s (who was a potter about 1760); Yates & May, formerly John and William Yates, successors to their father; William Dudson, formerly William Rivers & Co.; William White, formerly Poulson’s; Henry Mills, then newly erected, and other smaller factories. Edward Phillips was also a manufacturer, and used his name in full, “Edward Phillips, Shelton, Staffordshire,” on his goods. Other names are J. Sneyd, Toft & May, and T. Taylor.