Earthenware manufacturer at the Peel Works, Flint Street (later Stafford Street), Lane End (Longton), Stoke-on-Trent, England.

• Thomas Stirrup was probably the earliest operator of the Peel Pottery, Lane End, occupying the works from the late 1790s until around 1818. He may also have operated for a period in partnership as Stirrup & Beardmore.

• Unfortunately very little documentary or surviving ceramic evidence has been identified and no specific styles or marked wares can presently be attributed to him with certainty. It is therefore assumed that the pottery produced ordinary utilitarian earthenwares typical of the expanding North Staffordshire pottery trade of the period.

• Probably in partnership as Stirrup & Beardmore from c.1809+

• Named as a signatory to the 1813 petition of Staffordshire pottery manufacturers calling for a meeting at Hanley Town Hall to seek peace and restore international trade. explore further  »  petition for peace

The Peel Pottery site was originally recorded on Flint Street, a name later replaced by Stafford Street, within the historic Lane End district of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. 

Early 19th-century trade directories, such as Parson and Bradshaw (1818), show Lane End as a distinct subdivision of “The Potteries”, reflecting the fragmented pre-urban naming of the area.