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Stoke-on-Trent - Advert of the week
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John Tams,
Crown Pottery, Stafford Street, Longton
Advertisement showing typical products
Reproduced from the Pottery Gazette, 1886
[in the 1950's Stafford Street was renamed The Strand]
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John Tams was born in Stafford Street, Longton in 1837, the son of John Tams and Ann nee Procter. The family had been established in Shelton by about 1620. John Tams was apprenticed to a working potter. About 1865 he entered into partnership with Lowe, manufacturing in St. Gregory's Pottery, High Street, Longton. The partnership was dissolved about 1873 and in 1874 John Tams bought the Crown pottery, on the corner of Commerce Street and High Street. At first he specialised in the manufacture of imperial measured ware, mugs, jugs, etc., for hotels and public houses. The increasing use of glass and further government regulations forced him to develop new lines of production, including ornamental and general earthenware. 1881 census: Dwelling: 14 Red Bank,
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