Messrs, J. H. Adams and Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, High Street, Stoke.

"In the High Street of Stoke, one of the most prominent of commercial establishments, and one which cannot fail to arrest the attention of passers-by is the well-known pharmacy conducted for over half-a-century by Messrs. J. H. Adams and Co. who are decidedly worthy of a foremast place among the representative business houses of Stoke. 

The shop is one of the finest in the town, having an extensive frontage and two spacious windows of handsome plate-glass. The building is of substantial construction and very old fashioned in appearance, having a pointed gabled roof, with lofty turreted chimneys and heavy oaken beams in the walls. The position in the best part of the High Street is advantageous for business purposes, being opposite the Liverpool Road, which is the main thoroughfare from Hanley, and having the steam trams passing the door.

The interior fittings and appointments are very handsome and conveniently arranged for the effective display of a tasteful selection from an unusually varied and comprehensive stock, embracing all kinds of the purest and best drugs and chemicals, a complete assortment of patent medicines and proprietary article, perfumery and toilet requisites, as well as chemists' sundries of every description and surgical appliances, elastic stockings, trusses, bandages, bronchitis kettle and similar articles in great variety. 

The dispensing department is of a very important character, and the greatest care and most scrupulous accuracy are devoted to the compounding of physicians' prescriptions and family recipes, etc.

A further branch is that in connection with the requirements of photography, supplying all kinds of apparatus and materials, dry plate, bromide and sensitised papers, pure chemicals, and all sorts of sundries used by amateur and professional operators. 

The firm was originally founded as far back as the year 1842, and from that date to this the confidence and substantial support of a very influential connection has been at all times consistently retained with the most highly satisfactory results, Messrs. J. H. Adams and Co. being looked upon as a sound and substantial house of the first rank, and, as such, greatly esteemed and respected throughout the local commercial community."

from: A descriptive account of The Potteries (illustrated)
1893 advertising and trade journal. Page 82