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Potteries

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Pot·ter·ies  (pt-rz)
A district of west-central England in the Trent River valley. It has been a center of the manufacture of china and earthenware since the 16th century. Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode were among the noted potters who worked in the area.
Potteries
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the Potteries a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, where many china industries are situated
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It reminded me, more than anything else, of the Potteries at night.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops.
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