Mr. R. Emery, Manufacturer of Colours for China,
Earthenware and Glass, Waterloo Colour Works,
Cobridge.

"The work of the potter and glass manufacturer forms one of the most vividly interesting features in connection with the industrial activities of the age in which we live, and no small share of the interest awakened in the breast of the modern connoisseur finds its origin not more in the exquisite character of the form and delicacy of the texture, than in the richness of the colouring which imparts to the ware - of whatsoever material it is composed - its beauty and value.

The manufacturer of colours to be used in the production of porcelain, earthenware, china, and glass, is a distinct contributor, therefore, to art in one of its most attractive phases and departments, and as such, we hail such representatives as highly important factors in the building up of modem taste and culture.

In this department of trade the Potteries district affords many conspicuously successful exemplars, and prominent among the business establishments in the locality which have won very wide renown as the exponents of the particular industry in question, we must rank the house named at the head of this brief sketch. The business is of old establishment and honourable associations, having been founded in 1845 by the father of the present proprietor, whose practical experience in it extends over 35 years.

The manufacturer for which the establishment has so long, and so deservedly been noted. may be said to embrace all the colours used in the decoration of pottery and glass, including the chief enamels which impart such an imperishable brilliance to the finished article, rendering; it veritably a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

To enter into a long and commendatory review of Mr. Emery's productions in a work like the present is quite unnecessary, inasmuch as we feel that every page will he read by masters of the potters craft who are already thoroughly acquainted with the high and entirely reliable character of the productions which emanate from Waterloo Colour Works, Cobridge, but we shall fall far short of our duty as authentic historians of industrial and artistic progress in this particular sphere of operations if we omitted to mention the fact that at the present day no individual house in the trade holds a higher character for the quality of its goods. 

At the works before mentioned an adequate staff is employed, and a competent and well-known representative places the goods before the notice of the trade. A valuable connection is enjoyed, extending over the entire field of the pottery and glass manufacturing industry, and in the continuously enhanced connection enjoyed, Mr. Emery has the best evidence that his efforts are fully and fairly appreciated."

from: A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal. Page 63

Mr R Emery established a colour manufactory in Grange Street, Cobridge in 1840 - The company stayed on the site until the early 1970's, when it was purchased by the Tennant Group of companies and moved to the site in Napier Street, Fenton.

In December 2001 Emerys and their sister company Capper Rataud were amalgamated and commenced trading as a single entity under the "Emery Colours" banner.

James M Brown

Browns were established in 1926 in Fenton by Mr. James M. Brown to manufacture zinc oxide. 

In 1945, James M. Brown sold half of his interest to the Tennant group of companies but he continued to run the company until he retired in 1954, when the company became wholly owned by Tennants. 

Emerys and Browns operated on adjacent sites until they were almagamated under the Browns name.