Heathcote Road Pottery.—Messrs I. and H. Procter removed here in 1876 from the New Town Pottery. The productions are common earthenware in the usual cream colour, printed, painted, and lustred varieties. The mark is a crown upon a ribbon, bearing the words WARRANTED; over a crown is STAFFORDSHIRE, and beneath the ribbon P for Procter.
Sutherland Pottery, Daisy Bank.—Established in 1870 by Mr. Joseph Holdcroft, their present proprietor, for the manufacture of majolica, Parian, and silver lustre ware for the home, continental, South American, and Australian markets. Mr. Holdcroft, who for eighteen years was in the employment of Minton & Co., commenced business in another manufactory in Longton, which he left on the erection of his present pottery. His majolica productions are of a high class, both in design, in quality, and in workmanship; a “Wren Vase,” with well-modelled birds and flowers, is a speciality of his works. His mark is his initials
impressed in the ware.
Church Street.—These works, for the production of Parian, jasper, and majolica ware, belonging to Mr. G. A. Robinson, were pulled down in 1876 for town improvements, Mr. Robinson erecting new works in Sutherland Road.
Cornhill Works.—Messrs. Poole & Unwin entered on these works, which had previously been carried on as general earthenware works by others, in 1871. The productions are middle-class earthenware; stoneware jugs, &c., chiefly intended for the home market. Gold and silver lustres of the ordinary kind, and rustic majolica, were also at one time made. The initials of the firm are