Manufacturer of Jet and Rockingham Ware, Trent Walk, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England

• Elijah Brookes was born in Brierley Hill, South Staffordshire around 1845/6 and began his working life as an engineer on the railway at Stockton & Darlington, later becoming an engineer and contractor in North Wales. 

• Elijah married Mary Ellen Barrett and in 1876 had a son Gordon Brookes.

• In 1882 he came to Staffordshire as a manufacturer of Birmingham small wares [metal wares] and by 1892 became associated with pottery manufacture, specialising in high-class jet ware and trading as E. Brookes & Son.

• Then for several years he was at Longton as a "general earthenware manufacturer".

• In 1915 Elijah Brookes and partners began the Keele Street Pottery, Tunstall.