• James Meakin (b.1807 d.1852), started potting around 1845 as an earthenware and china manufacturer at the New Town Pottery, High Street, Lane End.

• In 1850 he moved his business to works in Cannon Street, Hanley.  In 1851, due to ill health, his older sons James (age 21) and George (age 19) took over the business. 

• James Meakin died in 1852 age 45. The two brothers kept on the Cannon Street works for a short time, later that year they took over another pottery in Market Street, Hanley trading as J & G Meakin. 

James Meakin had four sons - James, George, Charles and Alfred - who all became successful pottery manufacturers.

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