Descriptive Account of The Potteries
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published c1892
- Pages 90pp; illus
- Publisher Robinson Son & Pike
- Place Published Brighton
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- Name Private collection
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Business gazetteer. Not dated but shortly after 1891. Short accounts of c100 businesses - especially Hanley and Burslem but also Stoke on Trent and Longton. Very many operate in the ceramics industry. See Martin Pulver, 'A nineteenth century newspaper's description of the Potteries trade', English Ceramics Circle Transactions, 13/2, 1988, pp145-8, which describes an 1893 edition of this publication