Park Works, High Street.—Messrs. Charles Allerton & Sons here manufacture both earthenware and china in the usual varieties, as well as gold and silver lustre wares, both for home markets and export. The works were established in 1831.
Figs. 624 to 631.—Barlow’s Tea Services.
Sheridan Works.—Built in 1858 by the late Mr. John Sheridan, the works passed, in 1866, into the hands of Messrs. George Edwards & Co., and are now carried on by Mr. Edwards alone. About 1840 the business of the present proprietor was commenced in Market Street, Longton, on premises partly now occupied by Lloyd’s Bank, by Messrs. Thomas Cope and James Edwards, and after the death of the former, was continued by the late Mr. Edwards, who died in 1873 at the age of seventy-nine; the present proprietor being his youngest son. The productions are china tea, breakfast, and dessert services, both plain white and in every style of decoration, both for the home and foreign markets. Among the specialities are small cans and saucers richly and elaborately decorated in gold and colours, in “Japan work,” for Morocco, Gibraltar, and the Turkish markets, and tea-sets, tea-jars, kettles, &c., decorated in an immense variety of patterns, in imitation of ancient Japanese examples, for the Dutch trade.
Commerce Street.—Messrs. H. Aynsley & Co. manufacture all the usual varieties of lustre, Egyptian black, drab, turquoise, and painted wares, as well as stoneware mortars, &c. The works were originally carried on by Wooley, and afterwards by Robinson & Chetham. After remaining for half a century in the family of Chetham they passed a few years ago into the hands of their present proprietors. China of superior character is made at Mr. John Aynsley’s manufactory in the Sutherland Road.
Crown Works.—Messrs. Collingwood & Greatbach manufacture china services, &c., of the commoner classes. The works were formerly carried on by Anderson & Bellamy.