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    The Wilson Potteries were three related potteries that operated in Capote, Texas, near Seguin, in the latter half of the 19th century, supplying a wide...
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    In English football, the Potteries derby is the local derby between the two major clubs in the city of Stoke-on-Trent – Port Vale and Stoke City, first...
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    California pottery (category Ceramics manufacturers of the United States)
    World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep decline in the number of California potteries. California potters...
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  • Port Vale F.C. (redirect from The Valeites)
    for the club. The club's traditional rivals are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Potteries derby. After becoming one of the more...
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  • San Jose Mission Pottery (category Ceramics manufacturers of the United States)
    Mission Potteries refers to a group of tile and pottery workshops founded by Ethel Wilson Harris in the San Antonio, Texas area starting in the 1930s....
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    and coal mining, but despite its proximity to the Potteries it did not develop a ceramics trade. The name "Newcastle" is derived from a mid-12th century...
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    McDade Pottery (category Ceramics manufacturers of the United States)
    McDade Pottery was the largest, longest-lived and most prolific of a series of potteries that manufactured utilitarian stoneware in Bastrop County, Texas...
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    Wedgwood (redirect from The Wedgwood Museum)
    displayed at Barlaston as well as the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. Wedgwood railway station was opened in 1940 to serve the Wedgwood complex in Barlaston...
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    throughout the Potteries for oatcakes to be sold directly from the window of a house to customers on the street. The last producer in this style, the "Hole...
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    piece from Malibu Potteries; the two patterns can be seen on and in Malibu Potteries founder Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter's house, the Adamson House...
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    strongholds of support in Northern England, the East Midlands, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Black Country and the South Wales Valleys, where working people...
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    be used as a coloring ingredient in artworks, especially glasses and potteries. Copper sulfate is also used in firework manufacture as a blue coloring...
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    Stone, Staffordshire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    materials to the potteries and to transport finished wares to his customers. By 29 September 1772 (Brindley died on 27 September), 48 miles of the Grand Trunk...
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    the Potteries, a similar stew is known as "lobby", and people from Leigh, Greater Manchester, are known as "lobby-gobblers". In North Wales the full...
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    Staffordshire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Black Country in 1907. In 1910 the six towns of the Staffordshire Potteries, including Hanley, became the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. A significant...
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    expensive imported English Staffordshire potteries figurines such as Staffordshire dog figurines; those during the second period, by contrast, were more...
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    Displays at the Chinese University of Hong Kong include antique potteries indicating that there might have been settlements in the area as early as the western...
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    Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell) Brummie (spoken in Birmingham) Potteries (North Staffordshire, centred on Stoke on Trent) Southern English English...
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    The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding...
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    Potters from Montelupo set up the potteries at Cafaggiolo. In 1490, twenty-three master potters of Montelupo agreed to sell the year's production to Francesco...
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    Emma Bridgewater (category 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    Portas, Viv Groskop Elizabeth Day, Christopher Eccleston, Lauren Child, AN Wilson, historian Tom Holland, author Ben Macintyre, historian Andrew Roberts,...
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  • Persians (category Ethnic groups in the Middle East)
    17th-century Persian potteries from Isfahan. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. The Persian language is known to have one of the world's oldest and most...
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  • Stoke-on-Trent for the few years previous. She sang at local venues and was known as "the Vera Lynn of the Potteries". Her first single, "Pick Up the Pieces", was...
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    Heworth, York (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    features included a Wesleyan Chapel, the manor house, a public house (The Britannia), a windmill, several potteries, Heworth Hall and Heworth House. At...
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    a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1871. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801;...
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    Biddulph (category Towns and villages of the Peak District)
    9) and to Leek (No.93) and the No. 94 goes north to Congleton and south to Tunstall and Newcastle-under-Lyme First Potteries also provides a bus service...
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    Thomas and the poet and artist Vernon Watkins, which also included the painter Alfred Janes. South Wales had several notable potteries, one of the first important...
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  • 1854 by Earl Granville as The Staffordshire Potteries Economic Permanent Benefit Building Society. In 1930 it was renamed the 'Hanley Economic Building...
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    through the Potteries and Cheshire. It was authorised by an act of Parliament, the Trent and Mersey Canal Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 96), and the 93-mile...
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    Leicester City Miners strike derby: Chesterfield vs. Mansfield Town Potteries derby: Port Vale vs. Stoke City Retford derby: Retford United vs. Retford...
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