* * * * * _Bird._--Daniel Bird, the “flint potter,” as he was called, at Cliff Bank (afterwards Mayers), made agate-ware knife-hafts and buttons, and the usual earthenware of the period. * * * * * The manufacturers at Stoke in 1829, were, according to Shaw, Spode; Minton; H. and R. Daniel, who here made only porcelain, their earthenware works being at Shelton; Adams, in one part of whose works the first steam-engine for grinding flints is said to have been erected; Zachary Boyle & Son, near the churchyard, who made both china and earthenware; Thomas Mayer (Cliff Bank), formerly Daniel Bird’s, who was called the “flint potter,” through his having ascertained the exact proportions of flints and clays required “to prevent cracking in the oven”; and Ward and Forrester. In 1843, there were Spode and Copelands; Messrs. Mintons; Messrs. William Adams and Co., who at one time or other had five separate manufactories, three of which had formerly been Mr. Wolfe’s, the fourth the Bridge Works, and the fifth Hugh Booth’s; Messrs. Henry and Richard Daniel; Mr. Zachary Boyle; Messrs. Samuel and George Reade; and Messrs. Lowndes and Hill. [Illustration: Figs. 341 and 342.--Campbell & Co.’s Tiles.] [Illustration: Fig. 343.] [Illustration: Fig. 344.--Campbell & Co.’s Tiles.] CHAPTER VI. Burslem--Early Potters--Earthenware Gravestones--Toft--Talor--Sans --Turnor--Shawe--Mitchell--Cartwright--Rich--Wood--Wood & Caldwell --Churchyard Works--Bell Works--Red Lion Works--Big House--Ivy House--Lakin & Poole--Waterloo Works, Boote & Co.--Washington Works--Nile Street Works--Newport Pottery--Dale Hall--Stubbs--Bates, Walker & Co.--Mayer & Co.--Dale Hall Pottery--Rogers--Edwards & Son--Dale Hall Tile Co.--Albert Street Works--Mersey Pottery--Steel --Maddock & Son--New Wharf Pottery--Over House Works--Swan Bank Pottery--Hill Top Pottery--Hill Pottery China Works--Crown Works--Scotia Works--Queen Street Works--Hill Works--Ralph Wood--Sylvester Pottery--High Street Pottery--Sneyd Pottery--Hadderidge Pottery--Navigation Works--Sytch Pottery--Kilncroft Works--Albert Pottery--Waterloo Works--Central Pottery--Longport--Davenports--Terra Cotta--Brownhills--Wood--Littler--Marsh and Heywood--Brownhills Pottery Company--Cobridge--Cobridge Works, Brownfields--Clews--Furnivals--Bates & Bennet--Abbey Pottery--Villa Pottery--Cockson & Seddon--Allcock & Co.--Elder Road Works--Warburton--Daniel, &c. BURSLEM.