Potteries
Americannoun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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Yellow by Keep It Local has shops in Stoke's Potteries Centre, and Warrington, Cheshire, and stock items from small businesses - with the majority of the money going back to them.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
In 1928, May Rindge began building a great family mansion, Laudamus Hill, with lavish appointments like carved mahogany doors and tile from her own Malibu Potteries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
Known as the Potteries, the city is made of six towns strung together by a network of busy A-roads and a shared industrial heritage.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
Other infrastructure has been scavenged from factories across the country once operated by companies including Hartstone Pottery, Haeger Potteries and Lenox.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Thus in the groups of Staffordshire figures, now much sought after, we learn something of the story of life in the Potteries in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
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