Description:Hard Times in the Potteries
By 1813, years of war with France, and later the United States, had pushed Britain's businesses to the brink of bankruptcy.
The pottery manufacturers were no exception, and their names appear here on a notice calling for a meeting at Hanley Town Hall to organise a peace petition:
Josiah Wedgwood
John Daniel
Thomas Hollins
David Wilson
Joe Meigh
John Riley
James Bagnall
Thomas Tuft
John Baker
William Breese
Thomas Astbury
Benjamin Godwin
Thomas Mayer
Richard Hollins
Andrew Stevenson
Richard Riley
John Ward
Gregory Hickman
John Haywood
John Brown
George Gibbs
Josiah Mayer
Thomas Knight
John Dean
William Massey
James Keeling
Richard Hicks
William Walsh
Thomas Lindop
Joseph Locker
John Glass
John Baddeley
John Faulkner
Thomas Hume
Jacob Warburton
Robert Hamilton
Ralph Stevenson
Job Ridgway
Thomas Taylor
John Howe
John Moseley
Benjamin Stubbs
Elijah Mayer
Robert Bucknall
John Sherwin
Peter Warburton
J.H. Sheridan
Thomas Stirrup
Brough and Hughes
Beardmore and Carr
Thomas Griffin
John Ridgway
Christopher Whithead;
James Smith
John Meigh, Junior
Jacob March
Samuel Ginder and Co.
About this document
This document was collected by Burslem pottery manufacturer Enoch Wood and is now among the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.