_Coleorton Pottery._--Established in 1835 by Messrs. Wilson, Lount, and Proudman. On the retiring of the latter partners, the works were carried on by Mr. Thomas Wilson alone, and so continue. The productions are yellow, buff or cane, and Rockingham wares, in which all the usual domestic articles are made. The ware is of more than average excellence in quality. The “buff” is made of a mixture of Devonshire china clay and the local clay found close by the works, from which the yellow ware is made; it is found about nine yards below the surface, underlying a seam of coal. The London and other home markets are supplied. No mark is used. CHAPTER V. Stoke-upon-Trent--Josiah Spode--Copeland and Garratt--Copeland and Sons--Mintons--Hollins--Trent Pottery; Jones--Albert Street Works--Copeland Street Works--Glebe Street and Wharf Street Works--Copeland Street--Bridge Works--London Road; Goss--Kirkham--Campbell Brick and Tile Company--Harrison and Wedgwood--Bankes--Hugh Booth--Ephraim Booth--Wolf--Bird--Adams and Son--H. and R. Daniel--Boyle--Reade--Lowndes and Hall. The large and commercially important, as well as thickly populated district, known as the “Staffordshire Potteries,” or more commonly called simply “The Potteries,” comprises a number of towns known as the “Pottery Towns,” and other places adjoining them. These are Burslem, Hanley, Shelton, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Longton, Etruria, Cobridge, Fenton, Longport, and Dresden. Of these, Stoke-upon-Trent, although far from being the oldest, or largest, or busiest, is the great railway centre, and head of the electoral district; the parliamentary district of Stoke-upon-Trent (which returns two members to Parliament) comprising these towns just named, with a few other out-lying places. Some of these towns are corporate, and Newcastle-under-Lyme is both a corporate and parliamentary borough. It is estimated that in this pottery district considerably over thirty thousand persons are employed in, or dependent on, the staple trade of the place, that of china and earthenware manufacture. STOKE-UPON-TRENT. _Spode._--_Copeland._--The first notice of the name of Spode that I have met with in connection with potting is an entry of the “hiring” of Josiah Spode by Thomas Whieldon, in 1749. This I was the first to make public from the original book of Whieldon’s accounts in my possession. It is as follows:-- 1749. £ _s._ _d._ April 9. Hired Siah Spoade, to give him from this time to Martelmas next 2_s._ 3_d._, or 2_s._ 6_d._ if he Deserves it. 2d year 0 2 9 3d year 0 3 3 Pd. full earnest 0 1 0