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place, by bringing to bear many improvements in body 

 unknown and un thought of by their predecessors. Since 

 Mr. Bridgwood's decease, which took place in 1864, these 

 works, and the large establishment* at Tunstall, have remained 

 in the hands of the surviving partner, Mr. Clarke, who is 

 gradually withdrawing the manufacture from them to Tun- 

 stall, where his operations will be concentrated. The pro- 

 ductions of the Churchyard Works at the present day are 

 like those of the Tunstall works, principally intended for the 

 American market, where they very successfully compete 

 with the French porcelain, and where, being opaque porce- 

 lain of the finest and hardest quality, they are known by the 

 name of " white granite." Many of the goods, as services, 

 &c., are embossed in excellently designed patterns, and the 

 greater proportion are sent off white, and are then decorated, 

 on the glaze, in the States. 



One of the most notable features in the manufactures at 

 these works, is that of artists' materials, for which they 

 rank deservedly high. Their palettes, tiles, slabs, saucers, 

 &c., possess all the requirements of hardness, evenness, 

 and durability of glaze, and are consequently much esteemed. 

 Another prominent feature of the productions is that of door 

 furniture, which is here manufactured to a large extent both 

 in black and in white, arid highly gilt and decorated porce- 

 lain, the peculiar hard and fine nature of the body being well 

 adapted for these useful and elegant articles. The firm 

 gives employment to nearly four hundred hands. They have 

 lately turned their attention to the home markets, in 

 addition to the American trade, and are gradually extending 

 their connections, and producing services faultless in style 

 and material. The body, which is remarkably fine and 

 compact, is of good colour, the glazing hard and fine, and 

 the decorations of elegant design and artistic finish. My 

 readers who see the impressed mark of " Bridgwood and 

 Clarke," or the printed mark of a royal arms, with the words 

 " Porcelain Opaque, B & C, Burslem," will be gratified to 

 know that these are made at the works at which Josiah 



