Description:Oulton Rocks was probably built in the mid 1860s for Edward Capper Copeland J.P., earthenware manufacturer. Following his death in May 1875 it was sold and by 1880 another earthenware manufacturer, Charles Meakin was living there with his family. He sold the house in 1887 and John Harding, a brewer, moved in.
The Hardings did not stay there long as between 1893 and 1909 Henry James Johnson, his wife Maria and their family were living here. Henry Johnson was another pottery manufacturer. In 1910 the Johnsons sold it to Capt. Victory Henry Goss (1865-1913), son of William Henry Goss, pottery manufacturer. A bachelor, he died in March 1913 following a fall from a horse while riding in Tittensor.
By 1915 Oulton Rocks had been purchased by Robert Lewis Johnson J.P. (1879-1946), from another branch of the Johnson pottery manufacturing family; he was a managing director of Johnson Bros. of Hanley. He had married Constance Meakin in 1904 and following her death in 1927 he remarried: Ethel Maria Stokes was his second wife. It was then the home of the Waley family from the 1950s into the 1980s.
On the reverse is a message from Florence Goss Murdock saying 'This is my home in England' and 'we are in Wales now'. Florence (1870-1949) was the youngest daughter of W.H. Goss and sister of Victor Henry Goss. She had married an American, Gilbert L. Murdock and emigrated to the United States in 1905, but her husband died in March 1912. Later in life she married Sir John Fagge and became Lady Fagge. She died in Massachusets in 1949. This postcard may have been sent during a brief return to the United Kingdom following her first husband's death.