Shelley Potteries, situated in Staffordshire, was earlier known as Wileman & Co. which had also traded as The Foley Potteries. The first Shelley to join...
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Percy Shelley (1860–1937) was an English potter and a major force in developing Shelley Potteries. He was born in Longton, Staffordshire. He attended...
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The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Tunstall and Stoke (which is now the city...
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Stoke-upon-Trent (section The Potteries)
along the Trent valley to carry china clay from Cornwall cheaply to the Potteries (and pottery safely away). Many of the promoters of the canal were pottery...
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Stoke-on-Trent, England Shelley Potteries, a British pottery business MV Shelley or Empire Rancher, a ship Rule in Shelley's Case, a rule of law about...
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in the Potteries (Second ed.). Stoke-on-Trent. p. 161. ISBN 9781446638460.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Shelleys laserdrome...
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Potteries is an English dialect of the West Midlands of England, almost exclusively in and around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. As with most local dialects...
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established the Portland Works in Longton Percy Shelley (1860-1937) was a major force in developing Shelley Potteries, born in Longton. Frederick Arthur Challinor...
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proof'. J & G Meakin had close family and corporate affiliations to the potteries Johnson Brothers, and Alfred Meakin Ltd, which explains why many patterns...
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Fenton. The home of the pottery industry in England, it is known as The Potteries. It is a centre for service industries and distribution centres. It formerly...
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of the novels of Arnold Bennett evoke Victorian Burslem, with its many potteries, mines, and working canal barges. The Burslem of the 1930s to the 1980s...
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they are simply called "oatcakes". It was once common throughout the Potteries for oatcakes to be sold directly from the window of a house to customers...
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Wanderers, whilst their local rivals are Port Vale with whom they contest the Potteries derby. Stoke were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League...
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London & Derby 1903) online Thomas, John. The rise of the Staffordshire potteries (AM Kelley, 1971). Leonard Whiter, Spode, A History of the Family, Factory...
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campus. The shared-bathroom accommodation was sponsored by various local potteries, and halls are therefore named after them, for example Royal Doulton,...
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only decorate it. These two businesses were combined and Portmeirion Potteries Ltd was born. Susan Williams-Ellis' early Portmeirion designs included...
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Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 and had become one of England's largest potteries by the late 1930s with more than 700 employees. Production of Midwinter...
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Pearson & Son owned Allied English Potteries and merged operations into Doulton & Co. All brands from Allied English Potteries and Doulton & Co. Ltd. including...
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The company bought Ceramix in 1980, and was itself bought by Federated Potteries in 1982 before being bought back by W H Grindley in 1988. The company...
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envisaged that some material would be displayed at Barlaston as well as the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. The main factory on London Road, Stoke-on-Trent...
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traditional rivals are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Potteries derby. After becoming one of the more prominent football clubs in Staffordshire...
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First Potteries is a bus company based in Stoke-on-Trent operating services in North Staffordshire, England. It is a part of First Midlands and a subsidiary...
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The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub of the wider Potteries area. The name Hanley comes from either "haer lea", meaning "high meadow"...
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China Street had become populated during the rapid development of the Potteries. Potters settled in Fenton in large houses alongside their potbanks. Such...
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weekend in June. Etruria remains connected by public transport. First Potteries operates bus routes 4 and 4A along Forge Lane and Festival Way between...
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