If there was a definite partnership between the Elers and the Wedgwoods I expect it was confined to the supply of red Staffordshire clay to the factory at Fulham. It may well be that, as a result of this very action, the Elers determined to shift their workshops and put them up in the place whence hitherto they had got their clay, and where the unfortunate leakage that had perhaps betrayed Dwight’s secrets could, in their case, be more easily prevented. Be the cause what it may, between 1693 and 1698 John Philip Elers, the elder brother, was established in a secluded farm in Bradwell Wood under Red Street. It should be noticed that at this time, and for half a century afterwards, Red Street was important as a potting village. Messrs Mayer & Moss of Red Street were, about 1740, among the most considerable potters of their day. Here, at Bradwell, the Elers put up their workshops and small kiln, while they lived at another old house, Dimsdale Hall, which is still standing about a mile to the south. Shaw[19] had a legend about an elaborate underground speaking-tube, fixed from Bradwell to Dimsdale, through which notice might be given to the works of the approach of strangers. And it is a curious tribute to the value of such legends that, within the last few years, white earthenware voice-pipes have actually been dug up on the site of the Bradwell factory. They did not, of course, really extend from Bradwell to Dimsdale, but they went from one part of the factory to another, and were probably devised to secure secrecy rather than modern economy. These pipes are now to be seen in the Hanley Museum, and the curious thing is that one of them is glazed with salt. This, besides confirming the legend of the voice-pipes, is the only certain living witness that the Elers used salt glaze. We have spoken of the two brothers going to Staffordshire, but the recently accepted view is that John Philip Elers alone worked at Bradwell, while David remained in London at the shop in the Poultry, where he sold his brother’s teapots at from 12s. to 24s. apiece.[20]