By 1787  a large and thriving manufacturing concern had been established on a site to the south of Lane End, adjoining the recently turnpiked road to Uttoxeter. 
It is on part of this site that the Gladstone Pottery Museum now stands. 

It is to Thomas Cooper that we owe the present appearance of the potbank. Evidently under Cooper the business thrived; by the 1850s he was employing 41 adults and 26 children in the production of china and parian figures. In 1853 he purchased the master’s house in Chadwick Street. In 1856 he demolished the old houses fronting the High Street; rebuilding followed at once. A Deed of Second Mortgage between Thomas Cooper and John Hendley Sheridan dated 7th February 1857 refers to the two newly built houses and workshops against the High Street.... ‘at present unfinished and unoccupied...’

Chadwick Street was where the owner Sheridan lived before his tenant Thomas Cooper demolished it.