The freehold of the premises was afterwards purchased from John Edward Heathcote, Esq., by Hulse, Nixon, and Adderley. In 1869 Mr. Nixon died, and the firm was changed to “Hulse and Adderley,” and so continued until 1874, when (Mr. Hulse having died in the preceding year) it was altered to that of “William A. Adderley,” who was the surviving partner, and is now the sole proprietor of the place. Since Mason’s time the premises have been very considerably enlarged and improved. The productions are china and earthenware for the home, Canadian, West Indian, South American, Australian, New Zealand, and continental markets, the operations being conducted on a large scale. No distinctive mark is used.
Park Hall Street.—Messrs. Daniel Sutherland & Sons entered on these works in 1863, and they are now carried on by the sons under the same style. The productions are majolica and Parian of various qualities. In the former, jugs of an infinite variety of shapes and patterns; vases, tripods, and flower-holders; Stilton cheese, butter, and sardine stands and boxes; bread, cheese, and fruit dishes; water-bottles; tea and coffee-pots; kettles; flower-pots; brackets, and scent-jars, taper-stands, candlesticks, and other articles are largely made. In Parian, the firm produces groups, figures, busts, &c., in considerable variety, as well as all the usual lesser articles, jugs, brooches, crosses, and trinkets. Stoneware jugs, tea-pots, &c., are also made. The mark of the firm was formerly S & S, but none is now used.
Viaduct Works, Caroline Street.—Established about 1836. This manufactory, in 1863, passed into the hands of Cooper, Nixon, & Co., and next to Cooper and Dethick. They produce plain and printed earthenware of the ordinary kinds, and drab and other coloured bodies, both for the home and foreign markets. The mark is the initials of the firm, C & D.
High Street and Sutherland Road.—Messrs. James Beech & Co., the present proprietors, opened those works about 1846. They produce all the usual tea, breakfast, and dessert services in china of a more than ordinary quality, and in various styles of decoration. They are also grinders of flint and stone for the trade.
King Street.—These works were established in 1875, being opened on March 25th of that year, by their present proprietors, Messrs. Bridgett, Bates, & Beech. They manufacture china only, but in this are produced all the usual services in every variety of style. No mark is used, but the productions are both for the home and foreign markets.