1. The collective name by which Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall—the six towns of the modern city of Stoke-on-Trent—are known.
2. Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale (London: Chapman Hall, 1908), p. 3.
3. Potters’ petition to Parliament, quoted in A. R. Mountford, The Ill ustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1971), p. 11.
4. Frank Burchill and Richard Ross, A History of the Potters’ Union (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Eng.: Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, 1977), p. 27.
5. Chris Green, Fulham Pottery Excavations 1971–79 (London: English Heritage, 1999), pp. 125–26.
6. Hugh Tait, “Burslem Potters in Cumbria Around 1700,” Ars Ceramica 7 (1990): 30–32.
7. David Higgins, unpublished research; Maurice Hawes, “The Migration of Pottery Workers between Stoke-on-Trent and the Broseley Area in the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of the Wilkinson Society 2 (1974): 7–9.
8. Brian Adams and Anthony Thomas, A Potwork in Devonshire: The History and Products of the Bovey Tracey Potteries 1750–1836 (Devon, Eng.: Sayce Publishing, 1996), p. 12.
9. Too numerous to mention, but Ralph Wedgwood is perhaps the best known, working briefly at Ferrybride from 1798. See Heather Lawrence, Yorkshire Pots and Potteries (Newton Abbott and North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1974), pp. 148–49, 268–81, passim.
10. Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (London: Faber & Faber, 1981), p. 72.
11. Staffordshire workmen are recorded at the Gallowgate and Delftfield Potteries in Glasgow from 1770. Jonathan Kinghorn and Gerard Quail, Delftfield: A Glasgow Pottery, 1748–1823 (Glasgow: Museums and Art Galleries, 1986), p. 23.
12. Adams and Redstone, Bow Porcelain, pp. 62, 65–67, and 71.
13. 1851 census. Frank Burchill and Richard Ross, A History of the Potters’ Union (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Eng.: Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, 1977), p. 25.
14. Inscription by his son, Enoch Wood, on the reverse of the portrait of Aaron Wood by William Caddick, in the collection of the National Museum and Galleries on Merseyside.
15. A. R. Mountford, “John Wedgwood, Thomas Wedgwood, and Jonah Malkin, Potters of Burslem,” (M.A. Thesis, University of Keele, 1972), p. 77.
16. Ex. Inf. Robin Gurnett, personal communication.
17. David Barker, William Greatbatch: a Staffordshire Potter (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 1991), pp. 89–90.
18. Potters’ petition to Parliament, quoted in Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware, pp. 11–12.
19. Simeon Shaw, History of the Staffordshire Potteries; and the Rise and Progress of the Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain; with References to Genuine Specimens, and Notice of Eminent Potters (Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng., 1829; reprint, Great Neck, N.Y.: Beatrice C. Weinstock, 1968), p. 16.
20. Neil Ewins, ‘“Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins...’: Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775–1880,” Journal of Ceramic History 15 (1997): 6.
21. “Pray sell all the green and gold for Pensacola, the new discover’d Islands, or where you can”; see Katherine Euphemia Farrar, ed., Letters of Josiah Wedgwood 1762–1770 (privately printed, 1903; reprinted by E. J. Morten, Didsbury, Manchester, and The Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, 1973), p. 96.
22. Francis Celoria, “Reports of the U.S. Consuls on the Staffordshire Potteries 1883–1892,” Journal of Ceramic History 7 (1974): 43–67.
23. Bradford L. Rauschenberg, “John Bartlam, Who Established ‘new Pottworks in South Carolina’ and Became the First Successful Creamware Potter In America,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 17, no. 2 (1991): 6.
24. Diana Stradling and Ellen Paul Denker, Jersey City: Shaping America’s Pottery Industry 1825–1892 (Jersey City, N.J.: Jersey City Museum, 1997), p. 5.
25. One of many ways in which ordinary wares were referred to by Llewellyn Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain: From Pre-Historic Times Down to the Present Day, vol. 2 (London: Virtue & Company, 1878), p. 272. In writing of Ralph Hammersley’s Overhouse Pottery, Burslem: “The goods produced are the ordinary description of earthenware in services of various kinds and in the usual classes of useful articles, which, besides a good home trade, are shipped in large quantities to the United States, Canada and Sweden.”
26. A. R. Mountford, “Thomas Whieldon’s Manufactory at Fenton Vivian,” English Ceramic Circle Transactions 8, no. 2 (1972): 164–82.
27. David Barker, “A Group of Staffordshire Red Stonewares of the 18th Century,” English Ceramic Circle Transactions 14, no. 2 (1991): 177–98.
28. Report in preparation.
29. Barker, William Greatbatch.
30. Katey Banks, “Excavation of White Ironstone China, Windsor Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,” White Ironstone Notes 4, no. 2 (1997): 8–9.
31. C. A. M. Banks, “Under the road: An archaeological and historical study along the route of the a50, Longton,” Staffordshire Archaeological Studies 8 (1997).
32. Noel Boothroyd, “Archaeological Watching Brief at Fenpark Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs,” Stoke-on-Trent City Museum Field Archaeology Unit Report 62 (1999): 6–7.
33. Ibid., pp. 7, 15. |