Demolished canalside pottery near Mount Pleasant, Stoke-on-Trent
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Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 4 Sep 2009
The Trent and Mersey Canal passes by the former Winkle and Company Colonial Pottery, which opened here in 1889. This and all other nearby factories have long been demolished (circa 2000), and the land is scrubland, awaiting redevelopment. http://www.thepotteries.org/photos/wieldon_road/index.htm